BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1922, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. IN THE DIVORCE COURT. LONDON, May 1. Viscount Rhondda has obtained a defor the restitution of conjugal rights. AFGHAN AFFAIRS. DELHI, May 2. The Amur of Afghanistan is contemplating building a new capital on Charden Plain near Kabul. He is also making extensive improvements in the summer capital at Paghman. Afghan customs returns for the past year .‘bowed a large

CAPE- FINANCE. CAPETOWN, May l. In the Capo Provincial Council, the Administration announced that living to a deficit due to the reduction of the Union Government subsidy and other t: uses, he proposed to levy a provincial income tax on incomes above £l2O sterling and starting at 505.0 n motor cars. The amusement tax would be doubled and licenses increased. Income tax proceeds would be appropriated for t-ou-eational purposes.

JAPANESE HAPPENINGS

TOKIO, May 1

An order has been issued to tne Ji pnnese Governor of Tsingtao, io p-cvent the landing at Mukden of a I r<e of Chinese for the purpose of m ticking Wu pei Fu through Shantung. It is reported a large Mukden force is afloat destined for Tsingtao. The • i ap..nese Government is determined to preserve neutrality, but it is stated lmm . uable sources that Sun Yat Sen i- raising a loan of twenty millions <-:c m g, pledging railway, mining, and lottery concessions in South China thcrMore. There were May Day proce-mms m all large Japanese cities. Minor clu? .es occurred with the police who 1m -1 U.e route. Osaka workers were forbidden to hold n labour parade, but secured their objective by holding it in guise of a welcome to the Prince of Wales.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE. ,'Koceived This Day at 8 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May 2. The Assembly adopted new rules limiting the length of speeches to forty minutes in budget debate, or m introducing motions, and ten minutes in committee.

MR BALFOUR’S TITLE. .Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 2. Mr Balfour’s second title will be Viscount Trnprain or Whittinghnme.

SHANTUNG RAILWAY. PEKING, May 2. Tlie transfer of Shantung railway to guards has been completed.

MAY DAY MOB. ' (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, May 2. Advic-e from Mayence states May Day celebrants mobbed an American captain’s motor car and mortally wounded him, and mauled his chnffeur.

GERMANS ftARRED.

LONDON, May 1

A piquant sequel to Mr Hughes’s recent refusal to allow any German engineers to land at Melbourne for the purpose of erecting the Morwoll briquetting Coy’s plant is that, o-n permission being subsequently granted, the Germans now refuse to go, declaring their wives will not let them, fearing they wll get a hostile reception.

WELSH COAL TRADE.

AN IMPROVEMENT SHOWN

LONDON, May 2

The South Wales coni trade shows n marked improvement, though the owners continue to fare badly. The disposal surplus over standard profits for March amounted to £227,837 of which the owners are entitled, under the late settlement agreement to 17 per cent. , The balance, however, being insufficient , to pay the agreed minimum wages, the owners had to sacrifice their share of the surplus above standard profits, also giving £171,381 from the standard prol fits, which increased the loss since November to £1,300,000. BANKS RAIDER. ( LONDON, May 2. ! A number of armed irregulars, with a motor lorry, drew up in front of the Bank of Ireland in Mitcheltown, County Cork, nnd demanded all the money. The officials handed ove £IO,OOO. The ‘ lender then gave them a receipt, and drove off. Other armed men also raided banks at Ennis, Westport., Sligo v Ballinrobe, and Claremonis, and help up the staffs, and carried off on motor ears sums aggregating over £20,000. The railway between Carriok-on-Suir and Waterford City was torn up, and roads in the same district were trenched and blocked by trees. JAPAN’S CABINET. I (Received This Dav at 8.30 a.m.) TOKIO, May 2. The Takahassi Cabinet has resigned, with the object of a partial reorganisation. *rr HENLEY MATCHES. LONDON, May 1. Barry, the sculler, is coaching D. Chilian for the Diamond Sculls, at Henley, whereof the finals will be rowed on Bth July. Jn addition, Baynes and Hoover (America 1 are contestants. EUROPEAN TRADE. (Received This Day at 8.30 n.nO LONDON, May 2. Lord Inverforth who is visiting Genoa in connection with the international corporation for developing European trade, has secured the adhesion of Canada, Japan, Holland, Czeeho-Slovnkia Denmark, Sweden and Norway. These have agreed in the aggregate to subscribe from four to six millions of the corporations capital of twenty millions, whereof the balance will be found |iy England, France, Italy nnd Gennany.

DAIRY PRODUCE POOL. (Received. This Day at 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 2. The newspaper "Grocer” says New Zealand’s suggested compulsory dairy produce pool does not commend itself lo the trade in United Kingdom. Its advantages will be much outweighed Indisadvantages, as all healthy rivalry and competition would lie eliminated, and progress retarded. Any pool of this kind will be resented by the British distributing trade and resulting in the sacrifice of goodwill of New Zealand produce. The public would consider the pool a replic-a of the Americon Beef Trust. It would be practically a second edition of Government control. The grocery trade lias had enough of this kind of thing.

FAST FLYING.' LONDON May 2.

Blake cabled on April 27th., broke seven world’s records yesterday, by flying from London to Paris and back twice in a day, covering a thousand miles between seven in the morning and 5.30 in the afternoon. Interviewed. Blake said the chief object was to show that civil aviation was commercially possible without subsidies by means of getting a higher daily mileage out of the machines. Daimlers intended henceforth to run two cross Channel services daily, with one machine and a fresh pilot on each return journey. Blake added that he was considering taking a third man round the world. He had invited Sir Keith Smith, blit the latter after his tragic shock at Brooklands, felt unjustified in accepting though keenly interested in the projcctThe Air Ministry has consented to lend an amphibian for the flight.