MISCELLANEOUS NEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1921, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS NEMS.

HUSTKAI.IAN ANI» N.Z. CAlll.E ASSOCIATION. GERMAN MAGNATE’S COUP. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 29. The fact that the Hugo Stinnos com. lunation is ousting Dutch firms from their own colonics has caused apprehension in business circles in Holland, llerr Stinnos recently opened a railway car- | ringc factory at Java, and the Dutchj Indian Government has placed an order I amounting to many thousands of j pounds for material for bridges and rolling stock with a German firm ivnrkI ing under the name of the Dortmunder J I’nion but in reality Herr Stinnos. 1 A Dutch firm who tried to obtain the contract, state tint they were not even permitted to enter into competiI tion or submit estimates for the conj tract. In the end a (••' rnparatively high I price was accepted by the Dntoh-ln- | iliaii Government. I Indignant Hutch firms ti.-ive Uolllntldj ed an interpellation in Parliament askj ing why the Government is not protecting the Netherlands’ colonial trade. ' In authoritative quarters I am also told that Hcit Stinnos is doing a trej incndons luisincss through a neutral concern in South Africa, especially in j steel, and has received contracts for 1 millions of tons of material. I DIVORCE COURT. SYDNEY. November 21. Mr .lustice Gordon to-day dismissed Mrs Perrott’s petition for a judicial separation from her squatter husband, who. she stated, u-od to give her heating:-. The disluiss.il was on technical grounds. Tin .lodge said that if he were at liberty to show his disapprobation ami punish respondent, for his for-tift-r cruelty to his wife, he would have tin hesitation in so doing, hut that conduct had now ceased, and there was no chance of its repetition. Tn ordering the respondent to pay costs, he said that although the I pets in the case were not sufficient to entitle the petitioner to a judicial separation on the ground of cruelty, they were such as to entitle her to successfolly defend a suit for a restoration of conjugal rights if one were brought against her.

THE O TEST'S VOYAGE. ” THE fives SKRVICK. (Received This Day at S.IM) a.in.) LONDON. Xov. 20. Sir E. Shackleton’s (.hiest visited St Paul’s Rock and satisfactorily completed scientific, work. She is due at Rio on the 22m1.