BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

IUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A BIG FIRE. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, April 20 A fire in ' Halborg Harbour stores spread fiercely and rapidly, already covering seventy acres, and destroyed enormous quantities of grain, timber and fodder. The damage is estimated at eight million kroner. The outbreak is attributed to incendiaries.

REPORTED KILLED AND EATEN REVAL, April 20.

Tt is reported the American Famine Relief leader has been killed and eaten in Samara.

A DIVIDEND. (Received Tins Dav at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 20.

Nelson Brothers have declared an interim dividend of four per cent free of income tax.

WELLINGTON LOAN FLOATED. Received This Dav at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 20.

The City of Wellington loan was oversubscribed within ten minutes of the opening. A queue of some hundreds had been waiting outside the Union Bank of Australia for prospectuses, and were greatly incensed when they wore told the list was closed.

A OIV'-AT RECEPTION. 'Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) TOKIO, April 20. The Prince of Wales had «. four hours journey from Fokio to Nikko, a jov ride through the cheering countryside. The entire population along he railway assembled at the stations to salute the train. At one point the Prince was so touched by the amazing outburst of enthusiasm that he alighted and walked among the gathering. Cheering is a recently acquired custom of the Japanese, but a London crowd could not outdo them. Nikko was brilliantly illuminated'. The Prince is resting, after a strenuous time.

A BIG ESTATE LONDON, April 20

Sir Alexander Hargreaves Brown left £1,400,000 sterling. He cancelled earlier charitable bequests totalling twelve thousand owing to the heavy death duties.