AMERICAN HEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1921, Page 3

AMERICAN HEMS.

AUSTIIALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A COLLISION. reuter’s telegrams. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 7. The steamer, (City of . Auckland, bound for New Zealand, collided with the tanker Bethidridge in a fog off New jersey. The bows of both were badly damaged but they returned to. port under their own power. SERIOUS STRIKE POSITION. (Received this day at 1.30 p.ru.) CAPETOWN, February 7. A serious strike position has developed at Johannesburg. One version s ates that as a result, mainly of the demand for higher wages, the General Council of the. Mine Workers Union declared a. general strike. Another version is that the strike i‘ not the result of a wages dispute, but it originated at the Lonlaate mine, where the men objected to the s ift boss and demanded his removal, which the management refused. The third version is that the trike was not authorised by the mine Workers’ Union, but is an attempt on the part of extremists to stampede the miners of the whole Rand into a general strike on the eve of the elections. So far the trouble is mostly confined to the West and Central Rand mines.

ORDERED TO RESUME. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN, February 7. The mine workers union ordered the miners, except those at Langlaade to resume to-morrow.

REPUBLIC IDEA ABANDONED. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, heb /. Mr Foster Fraser, acting as the “Standard’s’ special correspondent in Ireland, writes that responsible Sinn Fciners have abandoned the idea of an Independent Republic, and want selfgovernment on Dominions’ lines within the Empire. This has caused a split in the Irish Republican Army. The gunmen, who are whole-hoggers for De *• Valera are losing-ground. De Valera, deficient in moral courage, is against the Republic, but it afraid to speak out. BRILLIANT RECEPTION. DELHI, Feh. 7. The Duke of Connaught has arrived. He had a brilliant reception, great crowds lining the one mile route to the Vice-Regal Lodge. Replying to the addresses of welcome, the Duke congratulated Delhi on its restoration to its old pride of place as the capital.