BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

MOUNT EVEREST .OLIMBEKS. •' IflE tIMES ” SlStlVTCfi. (Received This Bay at 12-25 P-"'-) LONDON, October '°- latest advices from the Moont Everest Expedition stale tEat 1 K It, the S.imililt li.v the north-east ante was found practicable. Sis a,embers of the ex,.edition, with twc.ny-s.x e ' camped in a. bond of Char a rall y t an altitude of 22,500 feet. Hire* hers of the party ascended the col coma cting Everest with the norJ. ask to twentv-tbree thoiiHuud feet and oond the route possible, but we.e driven back l.v a furious gale lasting for four da vs.' They are awaiting favou.able weather for the final climb. AMERICAN MONEY. (Received This Bay at I.M l>.m) CAPETOWN, October Hb The Johannesburg Town Council is considering an American oiler of a loan of 01,500,000 at 7-1 per cent "ltcu.st. RKi INSU RANCE BEAI. CAPETOWN. October U. An important insurance deal is announced, The South African late Assurance Soeiety has purchased Cm entire African business of tin- New York Milton! Insurance Company, "'™' b the transfer of over a million stciUng from New York for investment ... South Africa j JAPAN AND SHAN'T UNO- i (Received This Bay at 1.30 p.im) TOKIO, Oct. 10. Tiro Cabinet Council lias not yet decided Japan’s course in view of the Chinese refusal to accept the shantung settlement. Three corns s . open according to the Foreign Office, namely:—To drop the matter entirel ~ maintaining the status ~w> P«" d, “o overtures from Peking; refer the matter to the M ashmgton Conference; thirdly, to dismiss the matter at Washington, outside the Co ferenee. , BRITISH STEAMER ES. TOKIO. Oct. 10. The Russian gunboat Patavia stopwed the British steamer Gladys Docile.- off Munwan, Japan, as the steamer,

wa» departing and demanded the sar- , render of seven hundred toms of pro- | visions aboard, consigned to t,w . forces ait, Knmsehntka. Mite Gladys , fled to theMuroran harbour the gunboat following firing, but f;u ’"' K l,it her. The Japanese despatched ti\ gunboats to hold the Russians and .n----vesti>'.ate the affair. Ibe ltritnh C. sul at Hakodate reported the matter to the Embassy in Toklio, "duel, is investigating.