MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1921, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

[by TELEGRAPH —FER PRESS ASSOCIATION’] AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AUSTRIAN TERRITORY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) VIENNA, Jan. 2. A conference of ambassadors decided that the Western Territories of Hungary must be ceded to Austria by March. U.S. TENNIS PLAYERS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 1. United States Lawn Tennis Association lias announced the official ranking of Tilden as first, Johnston second. Wnshboiune seventh, Harding twentyseventh. THE CUNARD COMPANY. (Received Miis dav 8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2. The Cunnrd Shipping Company is issuing £4,000,000 worth of seven per 1 cent debentures with the intention of doubling the fleet of steamers before the end of 1922. Mr Booth, interviewed, said by its association with the .Anchor and Brocklebank Lines, the Canard Company have a wider sphere of usefulness than ever in building-up Empire trade.

PRICE OF COAL. (Received This Dav at 8 a.m.) LONDON Jan. 2. Owing to a fall in the export price ~f coal, the profits pool from which the miners increased their wages, is now dwindling, and industrial and household coal is likely to bo dearer. j SPINNING PROFITS. j (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) j LONDON, Jan. 1. I

Two hundred and fifty spinning companies at Oldham paid dividends in 1920 averaging upwards of nineteen per cent. UNEMPLOYMENT. (Received this day at. 8 a.rn.t LONDON, Jan. 1. Besides a short-time scheme, Cabinet is establishing a special committee repre_ sentative of employers, trades unions and Government, with a view to the terms of reference to investigate the whole problem of unemployment, and devise a permanent plan to deal therewith. The committees meet daily. CHIEF OF POLICE KILLED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, January 2.

Bagdad reports the chief of police, an ex-British officer was assassinated on the 2.5 th. by Arabs in the principal city street. The perpetrators were not discovered.

OBITUARY. (Received This Day at 12.20 p.tnA LONDON, Jan. 2. Obituary—Count Bethmann Hollweg. [Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von, aged 64, former German Imperial Chancellor; appointed in succession to Prince von. Buelow, July, 1909. The son of a Rhenish landed proprietor and grandson of a professor of law in the University of Bonn, l e was a close friend of the, Kaiser. Studied law at Leipzig, Strasburg, and Berlin, and passing successfully through the stages of a German administrative career, was, in 1907, created Imperial Minister for the Interior. Conducted negotiations with France re Morocco in 1911. His angry interview with the British Ambassador lit Berlin at the outbreak of war, and bis ’ naive “defence” of . Germany’s breaches of treaties, will not be forgotten. Resigned office in July, 1917.]