MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

• AOBTHALIAN & N.Z. OAHI.K ASSOCIATION,' DR MANNIX. LONDON, Dec. 2. Dr Mannix lias been prohibited from speaking at Bootle at a meeting to be held on Saturday. He Ims been also forbidden to enter the Liverpool area. THE LONDON OUTRAGES. LONDON, Dec. 3. At the Guild Hall, Barnet Samson charged Louis Segal, Abraham Segal, and Henry Himmelsohan with conspiring to fraudently sell him forty-four thousand sheepskins for leather, knowing they were worthless for the purpose. Samson’s counsel said these were skins stored in Old Swan Lane, where, as cabled on November 30th, a bomb was exploded. It exploded among the skins but he did not make any accusation regarding the bomb against defendants.

UNREST IN CHINA' SHANGHAI, Dec. 2. British and American gunboats are speeding to Ichang in the Hope Province where mutinuous Chinese troops have burned and looted part of the city.

SOUTH AFRICA WOOL. - < CAPETOWN, Dec 1. Speaking at the Conference of wool and mohair farmers at Blomfontein, held to consider the position of tbmarkets, and.with the object of relieving the present stringency, the Union Minister, Mr Malan, dealt with the position. He said that so far as tU Union Government were concerned, the only possible remedy was to send their wool to the Central Powers. The Union Government had two schemes in view; firstly, to advance wool to Germany on security of ten millions worth of their former enemy property in South Africa; and, secondly, to exchange wool for German manufactures. He said a special Commissioner and Commission of three are at present in Europe in connection with these schemes.

THE NEW GREECE* LONDON, Dec. 3. An official anouncement issued at the conclusion of to-day’s Conference by the English ; French and Italian Ministers states: —The three Governments have sent a message to the Greek Government, stating they are painfully surprised, after what they had done to assist in the attainment of Greece’s secular aspirations, at the recent events in Greece. They do not wish'to interfere in the internal affairs of Greece, but consider they are hound to declare publicly that restoration, of ex-King Constantine, whose disloyal conduct in wartime caused the Allies great embarrassment and loss, can only be regarded a a ratification of his hostile acts, and would create a new and unfavourable position as between Greece and the Allies. The three Governments would, in such an event, reserve ,to themselves complete liberty to deal with such a situation.

v . AT PIUME. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) ROME, December 2. D’Annunzio has scuttled an Italian cruiser in the fairway of Fiume, this preventing the departure of the Italian squadron there, including the battleship D’Annunzio. He declares a state of war exists with Italy, and has ordered a mass mobilisation, including women. JAPAN AND AMERICA. s (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.)

TQK'IO, December 3.

Baron Sakatani, a former Minister of Finance, addressing a conference of twelve associations interested in Jap-anese-American relations hinted that the Californian anti-Japanese legislation might come up before the League of Nations. Sakatani added it was uncertain whether the new treaty between Japan and United States would solve the problem. It was necessary to inform Americans that Japan’s case rested upon the principle of justice.