MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1921, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

GERMANY’S REPARATION. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Juno 1

Germany, through four New York banks, has deposited 35,733,000 dollars in the Federal reserve bank as the first step towards her reparation payment to the Allies. The banks assembled l lie credit here. Germany buying dollars h,' sale and exchange abroad. This is given as the reason for last week’s slump iit foreign exchange.

MARINE STRIKE. vßeceivecl Tins Day at 0.75 a.m.) NEY YORK, June I. Tlte marine engineers demands for reinstatement of men who left their ships prevented a settlement of the strike just as an agreement with the Shipping Board was near completion. Private owners still refuse to accept the Labour Department’s mediation on tho proposals which include signing an agreement maintaining the present wages for one year.

EIRE ENQUIRY. (Received This Day at 0.75 a.m.) • NEW YORK, June 1. Investigations have been started into the cause of fires breaking out on several liners affected by the marine strike, following a. blaze aboard the liner President Wilson, which did fifty thousand dollars damage. The similarity of this fire to that aboard the Panhandle State leads the owners to think the strikers were responsible. DETAILS OF OUTRAGE. (Received This Day at 9.75 a.m.) LONDON. May 1 ■ Details of the Yougal outrage show that an electrically operated road min<. blew up an unarmed party of Hampshires. Six were, killed and sixteen wounded, mostly band boys. In the subsequent shooting, a priest motoring past, and his ihaffeur, were wound-til. Military police reinforcements and an ambulance train soon arrived.

WOMEN JUSTICES. (Received This Day at 10.70 a.m.) SYDNEY, This D.i> . A big batch of new Justices of the Peace, included the names of fifty eight women, the first women appointed. Among them is the wife of the Minister of Motherhood. WAGES AND HOURS. SYDNEY, This Day. Evidence given before the Industrial Court shows a reduction of wages through a. reduction of working hours to forty-four, is overcome by tho payment for four hours extra overtime. For instance, the boilermakers under 38 hours received £5 19s and under the new arrangement £6 10s.

SHIP’S FREIGHTS. SYDNEY, This Day. Shipowners have issued a statement that the further reducing of freights is impossible. Ships are to he laid up if the existing rates prevent business. SUSPECTED SMALL-POX. ABOARD THE NIAGARA. SYDNEY, This Day. Owing to a. suspected ease of smallpox on "the Niagara, the vessel was quarantined. The patient is a lady passenger from Vancouver. The passenrecently successfully vaccinated, will lie released on Thursday.