BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

CABLE NEWS.

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] BRITISH CABINET CHANGES. LONDON, April 1. Changes in the Ministry ayp announced as follows: — Sir R. Horne becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr Baldwin, President of the of Trade. Mr Kellaway—Postmaster-General. Mr Illingworth is retiring from the Postmaster-Generalship owing to illhealth. Sir Alfred Mond is to be .Minister Health. / I Mr Addison is to be a Minister witfl- ' out portfolio. Captain Guest (ex-Whip) is the Minj ister of the Air. Viscount Peel is chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Earl Crawford is to lie First Commissioner of Works. ! Major Edward Wood is Under-Secre-tary for the Colonies. ' Colonel Amery is Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty. | Mr Lloyd George beenmos Director of the Overseas Trade Department. ! FIRE IN MANILLA. I 1 - (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ; MANILLA. -April 2. A fire in the southern section of the ! city destroyed" 3,000 native houses and j 15,000 persons are homeless. Two are ! dead. The damage is estimated at three !million dollars.

A RACECOURSE FEUD. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 2. A feud between two gangs of racecourse habitues culminated in a melee at a London suburban meeting at Alexandria Park. One man was shot in the head and another struck on the head with a hammer, but neither were seriously injured. Others suffered minor injuries. The police drove out one hundred rowdies. The cause of the feud was not disclosed. Later, as a result of the racecourse feud, a man named Russell was fatally stabbed in the throat in Holborn, after an altercation on Saturday night. ALLIES LEVYING CUSTOMS. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, April 2. The Ambassadors Conference approved of the Rhine customs line and authorised the Interallied Commission to enforce the penalties imposed by the London Conference. Goods from unoccupied Germany pay 25 per cent of the German customs duties on entering tin- Rhine territory from which exports only are liable to the German tariff rates levied in paper marks.

ALLIED MILITARY .MEN, j BERLIN, April 2. | A British Colonel and his chaufferi*I wore killed and a French officer was seriously injured through their motor I ear colliding with a wire rope, which a Polish gang stretched across t.h' Oppeln-Grossetrettlitz Road. The roue was there in order to trap a Germ-in courier’s ear. , STRIKERS RESUME. (Received this day at 8 a.m.i DELHI, April 1. | After two months idleness the strikers dec. Nd to resume pending negotiations. AFRICAN WOOL CLIP. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) CAPETOWN, April 1. It is officially announced that the British Government is pepared to buy up to one hundred thousand bales of South African 1919-20 wool clip, at appraised prices, varying from thirteen pence for locks and pieces to half a crown for superior skirted combings.

GREEK PREMIER. reuter’s telegrams. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) , ATHENS, April 2. Gournais leader of the Parliamentary majority has assumed the premiership, vice Calogeropoulos, who becomes Minister of Finance. FIGHT IN RHINELAND. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) BRUSSELS, Apil 2. Fighting occurred in the occupied Rhine land between Communists who seized four mines, and non-Communists who were prevented from working. Belgian troops intervened and the Communists attacked the troops who fired killing three and wounding twenty—seven.

INDIAN AUSTRALIAN TRADE. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) DELHI, April" 1. Replying to representations made by the Indian and Ceylon Tea Association in favour of asking the Australian Government to give preference to Indian anid Ceylon teas, it is stated the question of reciprocal treatment of Australian goods is involved. The whole question of the adherence of India to the scheme of Imperial preference will be considered by a. Commission which will sit during the coming cold season. The Indian Government is not at liberty to open negotiations with the Commonwealth..

A POLICE RAID. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 3.

As a result of attempts to burn down hotels, the police raided a club in Erskine Street, Manchester, and encountered a fusilade of bullets. Three police were wounded and one civilian v killed and another dangerously wounded. Twenty arrests were made.