MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FAMOUS A DVERTISEMENT. LONDON, Dec. 20. In connection with Mr J. B. Dunlop’s objections to the famous advertiseinent, on the grounds that it is too . foppish, the Dunlop Kubber Tyre Company appealed to the House of Lords against the decision of the Irish Courts in permitting Mr Dunlop to serve a writ and summons on the company’s registered offices in London, contending that it is outside their jurisdiction. The appeal was dismissed. The decision will enable Mr Dunlop to bring the pending libel ' action against the company in Ireland. (A message received last January i slated that Mr John Boyd Dunlop, who invented the pneumatic tyre, was seeking an injunction to restrain the company from publishing his well-known portrait, on the grounds that it was too foppish, and that it annoyed him and his family). BRITISH EMIGRATION. ■ LONDON, Dec. 29. The British diplomatic circles attach importance to news just received from New York that Japan and America are to negotiate an agreement permitting Japanese emigration to the Philippines. It is also reported that America, under the arrangement, is applying the Californian Property Law to all aliens including the. British.

It-is believed that America’s action will arouse protests in Australia and New Zealand. LLOYD GEORGE’S IDEAS. LONDON, Dec. 29. The Australian Press Association learns that Mr Lloyd George’s recent emigration speech in the House of Commons was entirely unpremeditated. The Cabinet was not consulted by him, and even the Premier’s colleagues in the House were not informed. He merely used the discussion on the unemployed as the occasion for suggesting co-operation between Britain and the Dominions in a redistribution of the population within the Empire, according to- the economic potentialities of each part.

A Cabinet Committee has been considering the unemployed problem for some weeks past, but the emigration question has not been included in the recommendations.

There is now strong opposition to an"y State aided emigration from Britain developing in parliamentary circles.

The Labour Party are denouncing the idea of using British money to deplete Britain itself of its best men and women.

It is believed that a large proportion of the other members of the House of Commons sympathise with the Labourite view.

The Ministers themselves are not unanimous.

It is pointed out that the Government has consented to a year’s extension of free passages, hut only at reiterated requests from the Agents-Gen-eral.

There will he no further emigration concessions, except they are requested hy the Prime Ministers’ Conference in June. CHARGE OF MURDER. LONDON, Dec. 30. A man' named Francis McPartlin lias been charged at Liverpool with being the actual murderer of a man named Ward a month ago. COTTON PRICE FALLS. LONDON, Dec. 29. The cotton manufacturing firm of Coats have circularised the retailers, notifying them of a reduction of probably 2d in the price of the reel of cotton early in January. EMIGRATION TEST CASE. NEW YORK, Dec. 30.

The State Secretary of California has refused to honour the first set of papers which the Japanese. Land Corporation lias submitted for filing since the anti-Alien Land Law and the Referendum were adopted. It is expected this may become a test case in the event of the proposed American-Japancse Treaty not becoming effective. BIGAMY IN ENGLAND. LONDON, Dec. 29 The English Judges have lately expressed their belief that there is need for more severe sentences on bigamists. The official returns show that the average number of bigamy offences has been nearly threefold greater in the last four years than during the preceding decade. The social workers blame the leniency shown during the war for the increase. A WARNING. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. Mr J. Daniels (Secretary of the U.S. Navy) in the course of a statement., says: The supremacy of sea power is now dependent upon fuel oil. Personally, .he favoured the nationalisation of the oil resources of the country.

Mr Daniels quotes Admiral Fisher as saying that it would he criminal folly for England to use another pound of coal aboard her fighting ships. Ho adds that other nations are conserving their own oil, and are exhausting the American oil ami coal supplies. America, lie says, has been a prodigal, and should now awake to the vital necessities of her situation. WAGES REDUCED. LONDON, Dee. 29.

Tho wages in the Welsh tin-plate industry, which is employing twentyseven thousand men, have been reduced by six shillings in the pound. _ This is done under a sliding scale, and is owing to a fall in the prices of steel bars.

A SPOILT TOUR. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 30. John McCormack, the tenor, returns to American in April. He declares he is a victim of an organised conspiracy, which has 'compelled him to cancel half his Australian, and all his English concerts. FRENCH SOCIALISTS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, December 30. The closing session of the Socialist Conference at Touris. was marked by a definite split in the party, through the defeat, by a two to ono majority, of a mbtiou, disapproving pf a telegram from Moscow, describing French moderates and centres as agents of bourgeoise. The extremists hustled and injured one of the speakers. The majority Socialists left the hall in order to establish a Communist party. D’ANNUNZIO TO DISBAND. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) ROME, December 30. D’Annunzio has agreed to disband his legionaries provided they arc granted an amnesty and an election is held. PURCHASE OF LINERS.

(Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.)' LONDON,“ December 30. Adelaido .Steamship Company has purchased the ex-German liners Prinziska, and Gertrud, and renamed them Milluna and Merriwa respestively. Furness and Withy have purchased the Wandilla. THE GREEK REPLY. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) ATHENS, December 30. The Greek reply to the Allied note will he despatched this week. It is understood it denies the charges against Constantine favouring Germany and citing his servicp to the Allies during the war, and reiterating that the Greek policy is a true friendship to the Allies. ARMAMENT LIMITATION. * (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dee. 30. Interviewed, Count Hayashi, the new Japanese Ambassador to Britain, stated his belief that Japan was ready to enter an international conference lor the limitation of naval armaments. Japan was not exceeding her announced naynl programme, which she needed to combat Bolshevism. Me declared the talk in United States about a big navy was very annoying to Japan. “It is follish and tragic to think of Britain United States and Japan competing in an armament race. Japan cannot afford it.” MR HARDING’S ATTITUDES. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dee. 30. A telegram from Marion, Ohio, states Senator Knox following a conference with Mr. Harding, said the President elect, plans to ignore the League of Nations entirely in his international programme.