BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

CABLE NEWS.

BY TELEGRAPH—PUESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT.

fAUSTSAIJAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AMERICAN CREWS WAGES. NEW YORK, April 19. The American Steamship Owners’ Association, controlling the ocean liners, have endured the wages of employees, the fall to. be effective from May Ist. The reduction eliminates pay for overtime. SHIPBUILDERS’ WAGES. LONDON, April 19. 7* The ship-building employers and the shipbuilding trade unions have reached an agreement by which wages will be reduced 3s per week, from the first of May, with a further reduction of 3s from the 13th of May. COAL SHORTAGE IN SCOTLAND. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.in.) LONDON, April 20. Glasgow has only one thousand tons of coal. It is expected that none will be available for householders next week. Morpeth has become like Klondyke. A thousand miners and women, armed with picks and shovels, have taken possession of old mine works and tunnelled twenty feet under the river Coquet, and have made valuable hauls of coal, from which some miners made £6 a day. Lady Carlisle has foregone royalty rights, and has given the miners a free band.

MISSING RATE CHEQUES. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 20 The police and military have taken charge of the Hibernian bank at Dunnlk, in which it is alleged the rate collectors’ cheques (cabled on 14th) were deposited. The manager,, who refused to disclose his customers’ affairs to the police, was arrested. NO MAY DAY STRIKE. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, April 20. The Seine Trade Unionists, Railwaymen and Transporters decided that there will be no May Day strike. THREE DECKER AIR tramp (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) , LONDON,' April 20. A mile a minute three-decker l. "mp, capable of carrying 2* tons, is the latest aerial wonder constructed to the order of the British Air Ministry. It is regarded as a precursor to an air lorry, computing with trains for commeieial transport. ANTI-JAPANESE ASSOCIATION. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 20. An Association of W estern Congressmen has been formed with the object of fighting in Congress for Japanese exclusion laws. Senator Johnson, who is chairman will appoint a committee to frame anti-Japanese immigration legislation which it is hoped to pass this session. BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP. , Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 20. The Dempsey-Carpentier fight will start at three o’clock. COMMERCIAL. LONDON, April 20. Talisman shares £6 9s to £6 10s. Freights are flat. Australian wheat charters, May, 52s 6d.

AVOOL MARKET. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. It is reported that the British Australian AVool Realisation Association” sold to Austria twenty thousand bales of its Australian stock under the British Governments export credit scheme. The wool be shipped direct to Trieste. AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS. LONDON, April 20. The Australian cricket team starts practice at Lords on Monday. RAILWAY DE-CONTROL. /Received This Day at 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. A sub-committee representing the National Railway Union, Locomotive Engineers, Firemen and Railway Clerks Asociation, deputationed the Ministoi for Transport, asking for an assurance regarding Government’s attitude when de-control takes place. HYTHE CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. The “Echo de Paris” states M. Briand’s object at tho Hythe conference is to secure the British flag being represented in Ruhr territory. Ihe “Matin” hopes Hon Lloyd George is favourable to the French suggestion to secure reparation. GRADUAL CHANGE. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.in.) COPENHAGEN, April 20. Advices from Riga state the Soviet Government is taking a further step to liquidate communism, and has decided to refrain from nationalising business concerns employing less than seventy workers.