BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

1 USTI'.AI.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOOi-rtON A LOAN FLOATED. I Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 8. The Straits Settlement loan of Ci, 155,000 was over subscribed. EMPIRE EX 111 iiITION. 'Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 8. The liritish Empire Exhibition will give awauU For meritorious exhibits from tlu‘ Empire. including agiicultural, linrlicultnre, viticulture, fond products, beverages, minerals, timber, also machinery, implements and manufactures,

A COURT DE/. ISI ON. London. Dee. e

( lorkcijwvll County Council decided Cat hackers claiming the amounts ol I heir losses by cheque, must give the bookmakers pariicnlais ol the horses hacked, tln- dates of the lifts and the amount invested on each ease.

l'l! AXLE AND ENGLAND. BAR IS; Dee. s.

11. I.uuchcr wiN discuss llu* Wiesbaden agreement in London, and is hopeful an agreement "ill he tenched lietwren Britain and France nil th" subject GERMAN LOAN. Reciived This Day at 10.10 a.m.) PARIS. Dec. >. A message from Berlin indicates llalhcuau as a result ni his *. i.-it to London arranged tin a six million sterling lean. It is believed Germany is able In meet the Jammy instalment of the reparations without furl hoi assistance.

Till! !?()()I?A RAV 1 ARGO. (Ile'cived This Day at 10. In a.m.) London, Dec. s The Salvage A~.~"i ini •,■■> reports il i flared all the me:R ip the Bomata condemned, Imt it i bon \l i > save : gnnd pnrlinu of the huiiei and smm rabbits. I: has la on decided to brill} all lhe roll i;:« *: at* ** i cargo to London. DEI. EG \TM>\ |MI’! il' NT’ I ’ HELSINGFORS, Dec. ihe Einni-h deb on l i**u nppuiuicd t< stale economic q'.n.-:i.ui- bclv.een I'iuluiul and Russia, has been arrested oil the frontier and removed to the quarantine station. Eliotts ma le ihiollgn 1 Soviet to ol,lain t heii >■-lease, tailed. A Cl iII 'AGO STRING. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dee. 8 A -trike 111 Chicago [lacking plant v.*i 11 ■ i s ui.o niii.-eil tu agree I" :l u '* duet wages inis n-siii„e.! -ei tolls aspects in Chicago eiiy, wi.cu* a huge m.ih of men. wotm-n and el.iiilreii rinted ill eonlliet ui'.h the police, .tinny prisons were injured or hided. The strike, which tin* Union official) estimate cllVels -JO,HIM) tto.ke.s llmiuglioitl the country, principally m( ' nago and Kansas .it x. is being at tended with serious disturbances in the latter city. Tin* Covernor ol Kansas ihieatened in , all mil the militia.

A Intel message states tin* striker- , I tacked the elevated train in Chicago minting fnriy persons, ol whom had gore dangeioiislv hurt. 1 lie Lnowi •nsiinilios in last night's noting is i ir lead, two dying, nine dangerously inlured and fitly less scimu.-ly hurt.

A submarine ESCAPE. NEW YORK. De.-. 8. Sul line is sank oil Blidgpolt Connecticut, and icuminoil siihinergoi lor twelve hours before the men os raped. They sun ceded ill devalue one end. through the toipnlo tubes. THROWN OVERBOARD. BAR IS, Dec. 8. Tin* ■•Jouriuil" publishes a messngi 'tatiug tlie loiiinuiinh'i ot the I boa which sank the Lusitania, and escape' to Paragua. where he became a natural iseil citizen and obtained rnuimaml u a Paraguan warship, but tin* ci**w di> contented with his iron rule nmtinnd and threw him overboard. OPENING L\ STATE. fß,*ce'vi*d This Day at- 1.5 p.m.) LONDON. December 8. The State opening of Parliament m

the 1-1 tb. will lie on the most impressive spectacular Neale, befitting the historic occasion. Irish Guards will occupy the place of honour among the troops lining the route of the procession. The session which is expected to terminate on the “Ist will be entirely devoted to Irish affairs. The drafting of the agreement ratification lias commenced. It is now expected that lion. IJoyd George will decide to go t. the country in March, hacked by the prestige ol t-ln* Irish settlement, Sir A. Gcddos committee of economies and the results ol the Washington Conference. SALE OF 7I( >RKKS.

I.OXnON, Dec. 8. Abe Bailey’s horses were sold at Newmarket, including the sensational Cosan> witch filly, Tisliy, imrcliaseil by ,| do Bothsohih! for 1100 Bucks purchased by .loyoc lor -100, Dare purchased by Soeiete du I’ lll ' Saint (l i 'rnnee) fur 010.