BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BRITISH POPULATION. LONDON, July 24. The Registrar-General states that the statistics for the United Kingdom for 1920 show the highest marriage' rate ever recorded in the statistics. It was 20.2 marriages per 1000 of the population. Tlie statistics show also the birth rate was the highest for over 10 years, or since 1909, being 25.6 per 1000 of the population.
The rate of the natural increase in population for 1920 is the highest in the history of the United Kingdom, being 491.652. The number of deaths was 466.130. This is the lowest total for about 60 years, or since 1862. It. gives a donlth rate of 12.4 per 100. This is the lowest in history. Tli ere were 6180 divorces in the year. Tin's number was nearly double those of 1919. It was nearly treble those of any previous year. There were also 3,425 suicides.
TRAIN DISASTER. COPENHAGEN, July 23. , Fourteen persons Were killed and 19 injured by a maliciously caused disaster on the Russian side of the Polish frontier. ACQUITTED. LONDON, July 34 Massey (cabled on 22nd) was acquitted. The jury’s verdict was that death was due to a bullet wound, accidentally inflicted bv Massey.
SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS. LONDON, July 24. Mrs Edie (cabled on June 29th) was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. .Tustice Sharman mentioned that bomb found in her possession contained thermite, which caused practically an inextinguishable fire.
LOAN SUBSCRIBED. LONDON, July 24. The Auckland electric loan issue was over subscribed within an hour..
FRANCE AND INDEMNITY. PARIS, July 24. The paper “Lo Temps” in discussing M. Poincaire’s visit to London, which is fixed for about- August Ist, declares that Frenchmen generally expect the following results : Firstly: The cancellation of the Inter Allied debts and France also to reduce the nominal total of the German debt. Secondly: a decision that the Reparations payments are to be devoted to repair the devastated regions. Thirdly, an early German loan to he devoted to Reparations payments, and the loan to be sufficiently great to enable Germany to re-establish -her finanees on paper. “Le Temps” adds:—“We are not merely pointing out the conditions which we think indispensable. This common attitude of the Allies must be made possible if, whe'n it ceases to he possible, our consciences are to be clear of reproach.” •
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1922, Page 2
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