BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

WOOL SALES. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) * LONDON, May 9

At the free wool sales there was a good selection, mostly West Australian which was keenly competed for by the Continent, especially for finer sorts, which were slightly above last week s rates. Medium to lower sorts met with a good demand from Yorkshire. Crossbreds were unchanged. Practically the whole catalogue was cleared. AN EXCHANGE. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May Exchange rates are—Paris 48.73 francs; Stockholm, 16.99 kroner; Christiania 24.47 kroner; Berlin 270 marks; Calcutta 15f ; Hongkong 3015 Yokohama . 391; Montreal 442; New York 3981. SIR COGHLAN. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. Sir Coghlan is joining the Narkunda at Plymouth to-morrow. No acting - Agent General has been appointed. The Narkunda coaled sufficiently at Rotterdam to proceed direct to Port Said, where she is coaling for Australia. LONDON, May 9. There'is an extraordinary slump in applications by ex-servicemen for immigration free passages to Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The emigration authorities explain that many tho'i . sand have joined the defence force organised owing to the strike. JAPAN’S SHARE. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 9. The Army Air Service has been advised that one big Zeppelin and thirty airplanes have been delivered to Japan, constituting her share of the German aircraft’ under the Peace Treaty. GLASS SMASHERS. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 9. Glass smashers got to work at the National Gallery and attacked! Holbein’s Ambassadors and Frith’s Derby Day. Luckily the canvasses are unhurt. The miscreants were disturbed before they had time to do more than scratch the glass.

% SHOT IN BED. (Received This Day at 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 9. A raider shot dead William Simpson, a Unionist farmer at Letterbreen, who was lying in bed. AMBASSADOR’S CON KEREN CE. PARIS, May 9. The Ambassadors’ Conference is discussing measures to re-establish order in Silesia. The American ambassador attended and stated his Government had requested him to rejoin the Conference ns a semi-official representative.

UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS. LONDON, May 9. It is announced from Cambridge that Massachusetts, Oxford and Cambridge have accepted the invitation from Harvard and Yale Universities to meet in dual track and field games, probably at Harvard on July 23rd NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS. LONDON, May 9. The New Zealand bowlers defeated Oxfordshire by 138 to 94.