MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ai-BIRALIAN W N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION^

FOR ANTARCTICA. LONDON, ‘Nov 29.

Captain Cope has been delayed at Montevideo, owing to the non-arrival of dogs. He proceeds south early, in Dec. in the whaler Golstrief.

METAL MARKET. , LONDON, November 29. Quotations are; Copper £77 7s 6d to £77 17s 6d; lead £25 10s to £25 15s; spelter, £2B 10s. to £33; tin, £2OB 178 . 3 6d to £212 15s. , Silver is down to 46 1-8 pence per ounce.

PERSIA’S FOREIGN RELATION*. TEHERAN, November 30.

The Shah has informed the Government that the Persian Parliament must meet immediately to discuss a British Note. The Ministers stated they had no information to give the Shah regarding their negotiations *at Moscow with the Bolsheviks.

U-BOATS COST TO BRITAIN. LONDON, December I

Lord Lee stated in the House of Lords that during the war there were seldom more than eight or nine submarines operating simultaneously on "tl’e British coast, whereas there were sometimes 1500 vessels searching for them. It is officially estimated that the sinking of each German submarine cost twenty millions sterling in naval and other expenses. ‘

■ALBANIAN ASSASSINATION. PARIS December 1. v jj_ The jury accepted Rustem’s.plea that he lost his self-control when he tired at Essad Pasha, whom he traitor and the oppressor of his beloved Albania.