BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1922, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. APPLE SALES. LONDON, July 10. The Sophocles Tasmanian applies have arrived in fair condition, with a good demand. Stunners 14s to 16s, a few los Gd; Gleopatras and French Crabb 12s 6d to 14s; five crowns 12s 6d to 13s, New York pippins 14s, damp apples 6s -to 11s. ALLIED DIFFERENCES. LONDON, July 11. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent says:—“The British, French, and Italian governments have now agreed to a conference being held, within one month, to settle the question of peace in the Orient, in which conference, Greece and Turkey will participate. ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE. LONDON, July 10. The Board of Trade has appointed a committee to consider the fabric gloves problem. INSANITY PLEAS. LONDON, July 10. Lord Birkenhead (Lord Chancellor) has been appointed to a Committee that is invfstigatin* the procedure at criminal trials at which insanity is pleaded; CHANNEL TUNNEL; LONDON, July 10. In Parliament Mr Lloyd George :iiinounced that, in view of the financial conditions of the country, the Government had no intention of considering the construction of a channel tunnel. MAYOR CHARGED. ROME, July 10. Signor Eiliadeifo Castro, Mayor of Lentini, in Sicily, is undergoing trial on a charge of manufacturing the bombs which blew up a courthouse, killing everybody therein.

YYARGPWKS. LONDON, July 10. Mr Shepherd, who has returned from Germany, motored 700 miles »and visited all the most important military cemeteries. He was most impressed by the care and attenton shown by the Germans in connection with the upkeep of the graves of Allied soldiers; also by the fine layout and beautm.! surroundings of the cemeteries generally. .

Mr shepherd succeeded in tracing and identifying many Australian graves. He believes that a systematic and prolonged search of the German records will reveal many'others. BELGIAN ORPHANS. BRUSSEIS, July 10. The Agricultural School of the Belgium Orphans Fund -.as been inaugurated near Namur, Mr Jaspar (Belgian Minister), Cardinal Mercier, ana Mr James Allen (New Zealand) attended the ceremony, and delivered speeches. The Belgian Consul General at London stated the Belgian Orphans Fund had received one million three hundred thousand francs from New Zealand. ~ LATEST EXCHANJE RATE. LONDON, July 10. Foreign exchange rates are l On Paris 56.601’r. to £1; Stockholm 17.24 kroner; Christiania 27.8 kroner; Copen liagen 2.65 kroner; Rome 110) hrej Berlin 2,345 marks; Calcutta. 15J: \oknhama 255 yen ; Xiong Kong 32) yen ; Montreal 4 dollars 51 cents; New York 4 dollars'44J cents. A MEXICAN SENSATION. MEXICO CITY, July 10. A dramatic incident occurred here, when a fifteen-year-old girl avenged the death of her father, Jesrts Moreno, Editor of the “Revaldo De Mexico. A Deputy, named Llorva, had shot and killed Moreno oil the steps of the Department of the Interior Building, following on a quarrel over the editor s attacks in the columns of his paper, on the so-called political evils of Mexico. Maria, tiie daughter of Moreno, who since her father’s death has been almost deranged through grief, waited before Fiona's home. She fired at him four times when ho appeared m the doorway, killing him instantly.. She expressed no regrets when she surrendered to the police, saying:— “Now my father’s death is avenged, 1 am ready to pay the penalty.”

FRENCH OPINION, t Received this day at 9.56 a.m.) PARIS, July 11. The “Petit Parisien” points out in a few weeks the present financial depression might render a moratorium inhufficient to check the collapse of the mark, and prevent a German economic debacle. The paper quotes M. Pomcaire’s opinion that sooner or later Germany must have an external loan. RUSSO-GERMAN PLOT. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) PARIS, July 11.

Searches in Russian circles here have , proved the Soviet proposed that Russia' < and Germany" should attack Poland , without a pervious declaration of war, and after conquering Poland should Jf attack France. Three Bolshevik emissaries have' been ’arrested. . MONARCHIST PLOT. PARIS, July 11. H is iust learned from Vigo that Portuguese had to suppress an important Monarchist ’Jot in Lisbon. A whole regiment supported the insurrection, but when it found the other • troops did not follow their example the men returned" to barracks and 106 were arrested. ___________