BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

CABLE NEWS,

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

Britain’s big Estates. LONDON, Auk. IThe Duke of Portland, addressing; his tenants, prophesied the, wholesale closure of many historic homes in England, owin.r to the inability of the owners to maintain them. The owners, lie said, were seeking humbler homes. The Duke said he was certain that Ids successors would he unable to live at \bhev. Since the armistice, more than w ; score of great titled landowners had & been forced to sell portion of their ancestral acres, including the Dukes ot Sutherland and Westminister. Hundreds of thousands of acres, worth millions, had changed hands, mainly owing to the economic situation.

AUSTRALIAN SEARLANE. LONDON, Aug. 1. The launching of the first Australian seaplane from Fairey works, Southampton, has been postponed. RESIGNATION oe MINISTER. LONDON, Ahg" s t 4 - Sir Hardman Lever has resigned the ~ H nt Treas my representative on position of Transport, carrying ‘the Ministry ot ' ' ‘ ’ , * £5,000 yearly, consequent on the tack upon the Ministry. BRITISH REGIMENTS DISBANDING » LONDON, August 4. It is officially stated that the Fifth Lancqrs, the Nineteenth and t'sent - eth Hussars, and the Twenty-fns ,< | c ers will be disbanded when service exigencies permit. BRITISH IRON TRADE. LONDON, August I. Midland Countries Wages Board report that since January the price of finished iron has fallen to toe cx . of £l3 per ton. The effect o us • inn 80 per cent, reduction m iron wor kef s wages. . . Hie North East Coast Arbitration Board 'have reduced the puddlers ;«ml forge mill workers wages'to the ex of 47 per cent. FRENCH LABOUR DISPUTES. PARIS, August 4. The official of the extremist Railwaymcn’S Union were to-day tiim. out from the offices m 'he R"9 ’ din. U.S.A. UNEMPLOYMENT. WASHINGTON, August 4. The United States Departfmcut "I Labour has issued statistics ,1 ‘ : ' ,n " with 65 industrial centres, show mg that unemployment since June increased Ynore than one per cent: since Fel.ruj„.y. The harvest time has miprows conditions in some localities and the textile and railroad work hns.nlso beer, better but the metal working trades have suffered tremendously.

THE AIRSHIP ‘“'BUSINESS. LONDON, August | Mr Churchill announced in the j House of Commons that the Imperial Conference’s decision regarding airships was thait th e existing material t for development of Imperial air communications should be retained u»ti ! the Dominions decided as to their future. He estimated the cost of * maintenance of the airships for ft' l months as £IO,OOO sterling. ( Air Afassey informs the Australian ; Press Association that the Dominions are not sharing in the maintenance expenditure, unless their, parliaments expressly authorise it. . UNCONSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION * LONDON, August I. The Independent Liberals in tin House of Commons have decided to . challenge the appointment of business nfon on the Economy Committee, on t 1 j ground that their appointment is unconstitutional, and infringes the rights of members of the House of Commons. A FRENCH STORY. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS. Aug. 5. The “Matin” publishes a sensational article wherein it seeks to expose an Aiudo-Gerninn plan for the exploitation • of Russia. The “Matin” declares England does not wish to see Russia powerful, but is anxious to exploit tier markets and rich resources for the benefit I of English industry. The “Matin” suggests that Britain * will agree to Germany’s anti-Polish 1 policy, and points out that Germany Inis > concluded an agreement with the Bolsheviks identical with England’s. The “Matin” asks whether the American altitude will thwart the project. _ _ ( POULET’S FINANCE. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDjON, Aug. 5 Owing to lack of means to conclude j 1 the Australian flight, Poulet remains j ill Dutch East Indies. Writing to then “Matin” he says .after visiting China, | lie hopes to establish an aviation school in East Indies. AIRSHIP R3B. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) I LONDON, Aug. 5. The airship R3B, purchased h.v Amen-1 ca is undergoing her final trials, and starts across the Atlantic on tbc 2oth. She carries an American naval crew of thirty under Commander Maxfield. The vessel is driven by six 450 horsepower engines, and carries thirty tons of petrol for the voyage. CARUSO’S FUNERAL. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 5 Caruso’s funeral drew the largest crowd ever seen in Naples. All shops were closed. The Church of San Francisco di Paola was densely thronged during the requiem sung by a choir of several hundred. There were an enormous number of wreaths from America and Europe.