BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1922, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

[I!Y TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION! N.Z. LOAN. LONDON, April 21. The final instalment of thirty per cent of the New Zealand Loan is payable dju 6th. July. 20s interest is payable on Ist July. Financial newspapers anticipate a gooff public subscription.

BRITISH LOCK-OUT EXTENDED LONDON, April 22.

Negotiations have been broken oil between the engineering employers and the 47 unions outside the Amalgamated Engineers, who had entered on parley. The employers have now ordered an extension of the lock-out, which is affecting 600,000 men.

Conespondence published shows that the employers demanded that they lie the sole judges as to what changes in the managerial w jrkshops practice should be affected, without consulting tiio unions.

The workers’ negotiations expressed the opinion that no union could accept, such a stipulation as a condition precedent to negotiations. They declare that,the employers have apparently decided to extend the lock-out in order to bring the unions to heel. Air AlacNamara (of the Cabinet) is now conferring with the parties.

WIRE!IEbS AG REEAI ENT. LONDON, April 22. The wireless operators have reached a basis of negotiations with the Alarconi Company and will resume work immediately.

STATIC LOANS. LONDON, April 21

The British Government are offering to convert about 626.3,000,000 of their j five per emit national war bonds, ma- ii luring between October 1921 and April j 1923, cither into four and a half per J cent ten year Treasury bonds at par, | with a cash payment of four pounds j per cent, or into three and a half ]ier j cent conversion loan at 6131 for each j hundred. . j It is expected that the New South j Wales Government will Issue a new j loan in London . The loan wilt be j for £5,000.000. at five per cent, and, is expected to he issued at the end of , next week. The price has not yet been , fixed. l

SHIP REPAIRS. . LONDON. April 22. Owing to tne shipyard lock-out stoppage, the shipowners are sending repairs' and refitting work abroad. The Canard liner Larconia. has gone to Rotterdam from the Tyne for finishing. AV RATION. BUENOS AIRES. April 22. The 1 ’ortngiu s ’ flier.- have now ariived at the Island of Ecrnando Noroiiha. They are aboard a. cruiser, and they will wait for a new hydroplane, which is being shipped from Portugal.

MEMORIAL SERVICE . j LONDON. April ±>. ■ Fifteen hundred Vickers employees attended the Ross Smith-Bonnett me- j morial service. The congregation, \ which was surrounded on three sides by aeroplanes included Arthur Mhit-j ten Brown (a noted figure in aviation eiiViles) ; and 'Oaptaji.us Cockeril an< Broome, hotli participants in the (apt to Cairo flight.

A DENIAL

ItEUTF.n’S' TEI.EOHAMS

.'Received This Day sit 9.5 n.tri.) LONDON, April -A. Lord Inchrnpe denies lie assuvci Larkin that all lnchcnpe vessels tradjpjr to Alls'.ralia will be witlKlniwn ii the Ansti alien I'nions bold up 'lie Unbson Hay.

A FISH IXO DfSIM’TE. Received This Da*’ tt !).o a.m I I.ONHOX, April 2.’5

Concurrently with 11 it* discussion at Genoa. an international naval demonstration is being staffed in Vi lute Sea, where it is reported from Christiana that a concentration of British. Finnish, and Russian warships is proceedin'*; to pro'ect fishing. Russians hroadcasled a complaint that Britain had taken forceful measures to protect shipping. On the contrary it is stated in London that the Soviet repeatedly seized British fishing vessels outside the statutory limits, .and refused compensation.

IN ASIA MINOR. (Receiver! This Day at rBO a.m i ATHENS, April 23

A communique states the evacuation of the zone in Asia Minor occupied by Italians has begun. The Greeks after encountering slight Kemalist opposition, occupied the Italian sector.

MONASTER EXPLOSION. ATHENS, April 23

According to latest news regarding Monasl.ir disaster, Serbian engineers diverted the waters of the river Dragora towards the spot where the explosives were stoied and the explosions have ceased, though there is still some danger.

BELGRADE, April 23 It is announced the Monastic deaLh roll now exceeds 1800.

NEW ZEALANDERS’ GRAVES. .Received This Day J 30 a.m. LONDON, April 23

Sir. James Allen has completed a tour of fifteen south-west England cemterics. He found New Zealand graves fairly well tended. In at least two cemeteries he found no one responsible for the upkeep of the New Zealanders’ graves, though Australians and Canadians were" provided for. He immediately took action for a leinedy. Sir James Allen paid a tribute to the devotion ol the ladies tending the graves, the most outstanding being at Brokenluust.

WIRELESS SERVICE

JtliUTUIt’S TELEGRAMS. • Received This Day at 10.15 a.rn.) LONDON, April 23. The Anglo-Egyptian wireless service will be commenced on the 24th, when telegrams will be accepted at any post, office in Britain for Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. A corresponding service is available in the opposite direction.