BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

CABLE NEWS.

|)Y TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. j AFRICAN FINANCE. ! • ' I CAPETOWN, March 14. ' Discussing additional estimates in ’ the Assembly, the Minister of Finance said the ordinary revenue amounted to 29.} millions and expenditure to 301 millions. The estimated deficit was £330.000. The financial position was such as to cause the Government serf- . ous anxiety. O -. an election COUNT. CAPETOWN March 14. The Supreme Court application for a recount of East London ballot papers on the grounds that a bundle was credited to the wrong man resulted in Stewart (Labour candidates) votes increasing to 1-503 and Browne’s (South African Party) diminishing to 1444. • Stewart will now apply to tln» Sui preme Court to he declared duly electi ed. FRENCH BYE-F-LECTION. PARIS, March 14. f Rye-elections in the Seine Bepartmeii which is a Socialist stronghold res suited in the return of two Govern- . ment candidates, who defeated’ . two Communists by an absolute majority of 64,804 votes, th 0 Socialists apparently abstaining from supporting

, the Communists. COMMERCIAL. LONDON, March 14. Mount I .yell shares 13/-; P. and 0. buyers £310; sellers £330. Bradford wool market is tending in buyers favour. BONAR LAW ILL. LONDON, March 14. Mr Bonar ]jav is ill. He is feeling the strain of uninterrupted political duties during and since the war. AUSTRIA’S HUNGER. LONDON, Marchll. According to the “Daily Express ’ Austrian financial experts met Allied exports and offered to deposit Austria’s !* assets, notably her Customs, salt, and tobacco, monopolies and the State railway revenues as security, for loans. They also proposed to create new monopolies in sugar, alcohol, and mineral oil. One of the first needs is food imports, and especially condensed milk, as children and nursing mothers jj are sick and in sore straits.

VARSITY" BOAT RACE. LONDON, March .t 4. The Cambridge c rew took 'the first outing for the boat race on the course yesterday, Oxford arrive to-day, Cambridge at present are showing superior form. The Cambridge ,crew is unusually heavy averaging l2st. 1.11b5., against Oxford’s 12st. Tibs. _ UNEMPLOYMENT !N BRITAIN. LONDON, March 1". Unemployment has produced a tragic change in thousands of South Welsh homes. Th e war-time earnings enabled the people to live in comparative affluence. They furnished their romes in some degree of luxury, Now 40,000 0 are idle in Rhondda Valley O ne. Ac.ute distress exists among large families. The ‘‘paily Chronicle” states the reverse of fortun e is pitiful. Pianos have been sold for £l2, and good kitchen chairs at Is. each. The colliers always insisted on buying the best available pianos. Now some of the homes are often reduced to bare re- _____ quirements as to furniture and some even of these articles have begun to vanish.

AIRSHIP PROPOSALS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) IjONDON, March 14. Plans have l>een drawn up for a gigantic trans-Atlantic flight of airt ships driven by four thousand horse J power engines. They will be luxuriously fitted for one hundred passenJ gers, and starting front the Thames ' will be capable of reaching New York in forty hours A GERMAN PLOT. .'Received this day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, March 11. An attempt was made to blow up the Victory column. Six Germans, accomplices in the conspiracy were arrested. It is believed to be part of a | conspiracy to assassinate prominent | Germans Sixty thousand marks have been offered for the discovery of per-

petrators. PRINCE OF WALES. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. The Prince of Wales rode What Dog in the Brigade Guards inter-regimen-tal point to point race at Helmdon. lie started .favourite and finished sixth. ; MONTENEGRIN THRONE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) ! LONDON. March 15. I Prince Daniel has renounced the i Montenegrin throne in favour of his nephew 'ifichaela, who is now jcom- { pleting his education in England. | Queen Milena assumes the regency. STARVING. REFUGEES. ! 1 @ (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) PAjllg March 15. Russian refugees aboard five of j Wrangel’s ships lying at Marseilles are j in a deplorable condition on the verge l of • starvation. They belong, to all * classes, many of those comprising the ' c rews formerly moved in the best Russian society. ' All 'are without money. The French Government is supplying I food and rations, j ■■—«manm 1 Delicious pastrv, cakes and scones are made with SHARLAND’S BAKING POWDER. ’Tis purest and best, and uicst cconomiccd