BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

GABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RADIUM RESEARCH. VALUABLE LOAN TO OXFORD. LONDON. Sept. 2(5 Professor F. Soddy has arrived in London from Czecho-Slovakia with two grammes of radium, which has Iweti lent to Oxford University, for fifteen years, after which it will he returned to Czecho-Slovakia. The radium, which is valued at £70,000, is the biggest and costliest' consignment ever moved. The Foreign Office will take custody of the radium until Prof. Soddy removes it to Oxford, where it will be used for experimental purposes.

THE JAPAN’ESI* NAVY. TOKIO, September 27. During tile next (50 days, a large liumlK-r of Japanese war craft will be launched; the destroyer AVarahi, and the supply-ship Tourumi this week, and the destroyer Suinire, the light cruiser Isttztt, the gunboat Nakoso, and the seaplane carrier Kosho during October. The super dreadnought Kaga will be launched in November. . Other vessels nearing completion are the battle cruiser Mutsu, light cruiser Obi Sara, and three other first class dostroyers and nine submarines. COMMERCIAL. LONDON, Sept. 2(5 Copper £(SB Is 3d to £(SB l(ss 3d plead £23J £23; spelter £25 5s 8d to £2(51 5 tin £1575 to £159-; ; silver 41§d. AVIATION RECORD. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, Sept. 27. A new aviation record of speed of 20(5 miles per hour was created by Sadi Lecomte. OVER-SUBSCRIBED. [ 'Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) | LONDON, Sept. 27. The South African Loan was over subscribed. OBITUARY. LONDON, Sept. 27. Obituary.—William Howard Snvth, formerly of Melbourne. RUNNING RECORD. I (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) ■ LONDON, Sept. 27. ! Morton, a Swede, ran twenty thousand metres in 3929 seconds, at Gothen burg, creating a new world's record. UNEMPLOYMENT ENQUIRY. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON. September 27. I!. F. Phelps, Director of Lalmur sta- . tistics in the Massachusetts uibottr Department, giving evidence before the Unemplovment Committee declared the workers refusal to accept, reduced wages was one of the main causes of the present emergency. He added that many workers refused to take jobs they did | not like. ' FIRE OX PORT AUGUSTA. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Sept. 27 The tire on the steamer, Port Augusta, is completely extinguished. The coal and portion of the cargo is being unloaded.