VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. JAPANESE VIEW. (Received This Day at 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. K. Tamaki, acting Consul-General for Japan, endorsing Hayes comment on Mr Hughes’ statement said it would be gratifying news to the radical sensational sentiments sometimes promulgated in Australia, as expressing the unanimous belief of the Commonwealth. THEFT OF SILK. SYDNEY, This Day. Silk goods valued at five hundred sterling consigned from England to Sydney, in a zinc lined case enclosed in a larger ease, were pillaged during the journey, thieves extracting the silk through a five inch hole. INFANT! LE MORTALITY. SYDNEY, This Day. Doctor Purdy, the City Health Officer, reported that infantile mortality during the past six months was abnormally high, j-eaching over ten per cent, in January, the chief causes being whooping cough, enteritis and diarrhoea. FLYING. (Received This Day at 10.40 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Bert Hinckdon left Sydney on Monday morning and flew in a baby Avro to Bundaberg. 11c completed the journey in nine hours. The train takes 42 hours. The distance covered was 700 miles. WHEAT PRICES. (Received This Day at 10.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day.

The Wheat Board decided to provide millers with wheat for grinding into flour for export at tho world’s parity price.

HEAVY WEATHER. MELBOURNE, April 11. Ou'ing to heavy weather on the coast, several steamers are delayed, including the Paloona and Kaiapoi. CRICKET FINANCE. MELBOURNE, This Day. The quota from each State to finance tho Australasian eleven’s tour is: New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, £I3OO sterling each; Queensland £l3O, Tasmania and West Australia £IOO each. CARPENTERS COMBINE. SYDNEY, This Day. Carpenters throughout the Commonwealth have effected an amalgamation with a total membership of fifteen thousand.