BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1921, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIMjK ASSOCIATION POTTOMLEY’S MIDDLE. LONDON. Oct. '22.

Mr Justice Sargent has decided oil appointing receivers for various Bottomley “Bond Club” funds. The judge says: - “The whole thing was a complete muddle, no dates being fixed for repayment of the “\ ictorv Bond club funds. There was no income to pay interest. There had been a callous disregard of the interests of the subscribers. Mr Bottomley appeared to have received the whole of the income from the fund, lie had not exhibited the slightest care ill regard to the interests of those who trusted their money to him. No doubt some of the dissatisfied persons were using pressure to get. their money hack. Mr Justice Sargeant in ordering the appointment of receivers for Bottomley Clubs said that Flora-tin Bottomlev had devoted his Victory Bond Club scheme for years to gambling and lottery. The hooks ielating to the Club had been taken out of the country, most improperly, and intimated that Mr Bottomley was bound to bring within jurisdiction funds which might at present be outside jurisdiction.

GREEK RETREAT. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct 22 The Nationalist communique states that the Greeks are burning village* in Eskilmlir and .\fiumwkarahissar sectors. which is regarded as a. prelude to the evacuation of both towns. It is reported front Angora that a Ereneh-Kenialist agreement has been signed. Franco agreeing to a modification of tile frontier, which will henceforth follow the Bagdad railway as fains Nissibin. The French secured a concession to work tho railway.

CALIFORNIA AND THE JAPS EXCLUSION DEMANDED. WASHINGTON. October 22. A ('nlifnniin.n Congressional Delegat.i'rn has pc rim'd the State IJ I i.i 1 1 1 lie n t with a hri'.l. piv|nicd by the Japanese Exclusion League, urging the rigid exclusion of Japanese iiiiiu igrutiuti, on the theory of peaceful penetration, and that tie' race constitute- a national menace. IN THE MOON. LONDON, October 23:Tlieie has been an eclipse of the moon. The obsei rations mad" have proved that the planet is now -lightly out of its proper i nurse, and it a'-o is distinctly ahead of ni:r time. Dr Ci onmi'Tiii say- that reckoning a second of are as a mile, the moon lias deviated f'd'\ twelve miles Its erratic behaviour le gan JO yeais ago. Some unknown influences ..re acting lie suspects this cause is ingnu italic!!. or possibly some magnetic folee. The Daily Mail adds; “This falsities the table by v.'bieh the positions in the Nautical Alumnae are calculated lor the pur| oes of Navigation. The 1(12:1 edit ii'tn will have In' I"' revised.

PARIS COADI EXISTS, PARIS, Oetolier 22 [u n eonfliet hetwen tin' Police and the Communists outside the Communists’ meeting. u lsuiih wns thrown I*2 police and throe others being injured. Six arrests have Is'-m imide. (i I’.R.AI AX ROIdTfCAI. CRISIS. lil-.l! I.;l N. (tetoher 22. The Wirth (lot ernmeut bus rc-ignod LONDON. Oetohei- ‘-’I. The Berlin exchange rate has renelied (’.All marks to the £. WI IK AT Rl! ICES LOWER. LONDON. t tetoher 22. The w’ eat mu i kid is easier. Au—tmlian cargoes Deecmb.r-Kebruary ate noted at Alii; parrels 1 u.e 111 1 n ■ r-. I ulluul'v at- Al -. AIEAT TRADE l.( t.N DUN. n. loii. r 22. The I.i 11 uli >ll Meat Importers, at a Coiilei eni i\ i nnnimoii-ly decided to IH ee the 11 ii ii I Heel'S 111 New /('illillld nonin to eonsider the ndvisnhility ol pooling -mall consignments under one mark. The , linge-lion of moat in th" I nitnl Kingdom lias boon seiinuslv uggruvuted hv u niultitilieily of marks, which hindered shins unloading and eaii-od deteriiiriition through the freipienl opening of hatches, aml exl i a linn.Hill";. Be sides increasing the cost, these handicaps me noil-existent ll* olhi-i meats, notably South America n. which slopped tilling lines all under the -nine marks.

KBK.NCII PREMIER'S DEMAND. PARIS, (let. 21. \| Brin ml, niter answering an interpellation in the Chamber, demanded a large vote of confidence. fie said ho would not go to Washington unless there was a majority large el gh to dissipate any doubt in regard to France's desire to practise a policy of pence. It might lie onsy enough to seen re the execution of the \ ersailh’s Treaty, if Cermnny and Frame were face to face alone, hut there was (iermnny on one side, and the Allies on tlio otlior.

1 Speaking on the i|iiestioli of Silesia Af. Briand said that Europe was on tlio 1 frontier of a new war. ; M. Briand also read evidence of the destruction of Ormnnv’s war material . and recent disarmament. TTo paid a ’ tribute to TTcrr Wirth fCerman Dremierl. who, lie said, is up against the flormnn industrial magnates. The latter are organising a bankruptcy of tlio State in the hope of preventing Cler- ! many from executing the financial | clflusos of tlio Treaty. I Tlio debate was adjourned till Tnesi day.

NEW BRITISH DREADNOUGHTS. LONDON, Oct 22. The following lour firms, Beardmore, John Brown’s, Fairfield, and Swan and Hunter, have received the contracts for the building of the four big buttle cruisers, which Britain is to build; Theirs, it is announced, were the lowest tenders. Vickers and Armstrong’s will also benefit by sub-contracts for armour plate and guns. The fact that three out. of four contracts have gone to Clyde-side is regarded as a great victory for Glasgow. Each ship will give employment to 2000 men for nearly three years.

A SOVIET MOVE. ItKL'TKll’s TKMVOU.MS. LONDON Oct. 21. The British agent in Mu-eow repm'a company lias been formed in Moscow to do business with 10-eign countries on behalf of ihe Soviet, an a commission basis. Th" founders were lormerly leadin',!; mi-ieha-lits in Moscow. O'e I'o: unit ion of the company is the firO step towards removin'.: the foreign trade of Russia from the direct manU" elite id. of the Soviet Goverinnenl. LORD NORTTK'LTKKE. NEW YORK. October ?J.

Lord Northcliffe had gn-.it public receptions at Manilla. Replying to welcome*, lie advised Eillioinos to remain under the American ting and declared that war in the Pacific would follow any failure of the Washington Conference. England and l nited States would act as one nation. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct 23. Under the Eranon-Kemalist agreement FT an co undertakes to support Turkish claims to Thrace and Smyrna, in return lor nreferenlial commercial treatment.