VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1921, Page 4

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER TRESS ASSOCIATIONJ THE KAITANGATA MINERS. DUNEDIN, August 2. Last week .there were conferences between the Kaitangata Coal Company management and representatives of its employees, with the idea of -oming to a new agreement respecting the conditions of work. Two such' meetings were ] lP ld, and it was understood that other negotiations were to take place. In the meantime the Miners’ Federation has stepped in and warned the Kaitangata Union that it must not come to a settlement under the provisions of the Arbitration Act, and it is understood that a ballot on the subject of Kvitangatn revealed a majority for obeying the Federation, but whether fhis is to he regarded as finally disposing of a local settlement remains to he see*.

SEAMEN’S AVAR, RELIEF FUND. WELLINGTON, August 2. In connexion with the Seamen's AYaiRelief Fund, subscribed hv the farmer? of New Zealand for tlie dependants of thoso members of the navy and mercantile marine who wore killed in tin war. it is stated that the ’oral committee is. now ready to receive applications from anyone coming within tlw scope of tile fund. DAIRY PRODUCE. WELLINGTON, Aug. 3. The agents of British importing and distributing houses are now busily engaged in interviewing dairy factory directors all over the country. The tend, oiiey is largely to consign, s<? uncertain is the future of the market. South Island cheesemakers want fully Isa pound for their product, but it i. s reported that buyers are not prepared, if buying at all, to go beyond llpl. Sale* of North Island cheese for up-to-()etobor was reported as having been made at Hid. It is difficult to ascertain the price of butter outputs, hut Is lid to 2s, 1.0. b.. is reported in Wellington as the approximate ruling rate. WELLINGTON’S LOAN. WELLINGTON, Aug. 3. The prospectus for the City Council'*. £750,000 loan was sent to England by the Tahiti yesterday, and is expected to reach London about the time the Government embargo is lifted. The Mayor is sanguine that the loan can he floated. lie states that the council recently received offers of £500,000 at 8.1 °». through an Auckland firm with English capital, and another offer of a similar amount at a slightly les s rate. This induces! the Mayor to think that there is plenty of money about, and that the Council will be successful in float ing the loan. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. O A MARI', August

Lord Jell imp, accompanied by 1 ad\ Jeillieoe and the lion. Lucy Jellicoe paid his first official visit to Cmmarii tliis evening, liis Excel Envy was entertained at dinner by the citizens and afterwards attended a reception in the Drill Hall.

In the course of Jiis reply to . n address of welcome. Lord Jellicoe referred in eulogistic language to the memorial of oak trees planted along the nighways in memory of the North 0', .g0 men who IVll in the Great War. lord Jellicoe said that in all his travels ho had not come across a more fitting form of memorial to the fallen. || was a living monument that would keep

evergreen the memory of the nrave sons of this district, who did t-licir d itv at. the cost of their lives in the Great War.

Lord .Tellieoe visits the WnPnki Bovs’ High School in the morning, attends a review of primary vlion! ••hildieii early in the afternoon, and leaves for Christchurch later in the dav.

IXSCKAXOB EKAFD. WEI.ITNGTOX, Aug. 4. At Ma«j;i-sLrs«t«»’s Court- to-day, William Edward Parker was charged will) li:i\-in<n :ittempted to obtain £l4 Its* Imm the New Zealand Insurance Company by falsely representing that its the result of an accident on the steamer llama lie had been totally incapacitated and unable to work for a period, lie told the company that he haul done no work since the accident " lion as a matter of fact he had worked on tin' steamer Kennedy. A fine of tin. afterwards reduced to £7, on appeal of counsel, was imposed. 1)10ATI I SENTENCE. WELLINGTON, Auk. 4. A private letter received in Wellington from Nine Island states that in connection with tlm recent murder of a policeman. Martin, one of the accused has h<>on sentenced to death. Another native, [ T lu Afotu, has been sentenced to ten years.