BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

IUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. COMPENSATION CLAIMS. LONDON, August 16. Lord Castlemaine is claiming £200,000 compensation for the destruction of Moydrum Castle (cabled July 4th), and Airs Lambert £30,000 for the murder of her husband, General Lambert. EXCHANGE RATES. LONDON, Aug. 15 Exchange rates are-: London on Paris, four francs 86 centimes to the £; on Stockholm, 17.39 kroner; on Christiania; 28.33 kroner; on Copenhagen, 23.04 kroner; on Berlin, 311 marks; on Calcutta, 155 pence to the rupee; on Yokohama, 31J pence to the yen; on Hongkopg, 32pence to the dollar; on Montreal, 4 dollars 08 cents to the £; on New York, 3 dollars 67 cents to the £. ______ ■-—i VESSEL ON FIRE. LONDON, Aug. 15. The Union Castle liner Saxon, bound from Southampton to Capetown, is afire and is proceeding to Sierra Leone. The steamer Waipara is accompanying her. General Smuts is a passenger in the Saxon.

GERMAN STOCK GAMBLING. BERLIN, Aug. 15. All classes in Berlin are participating in stock exchange gambling. The mania is partly due to a further decline in the value of the mark abroad, *0 through the Government’s heavy buying, and also through an expectation that new taxation will send prices sky high. The brokers are refusing orders received after the first post-. The newspapers are forecasting a terrible crash.