MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

tUSIIIALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION GOVERNOR APPOINTED. LONDON, Aug 25. Major General Sir George Bridges has been appointed Governor of South Australia. BLAKE’S MACHINE DESTROYED. DELHI, Aug. 25. McMillan and Malins have cabled from Chittagong that they were' picked up at sea off Sandwip on Thursday evening after three days and two ‘nights on “the -floats of their' overturned machine riding heavy seas without food or water. The machine was abandoned, a total wreck. Both are in hospital suffering from exposure. Full details later. Cheerio. ,

QUITE FOR SLEEPING SICK- , NESS LONDON, Aug 25. , Advices from Hamburg state ‘Doc-, tor Zache claims to have discovered a cure for sleeping sickness and malaria which will enable Germany to demand the restoration of African colonies in return for 'making the vast tropical territories habitable by. whites.

LONDON. August 26. Owing to steady improvement in the demand for coal, several of The North Wales collieries have worked six full days this week. This is a record since' the end of the war.

MURDERER’S CONFESSION LONDON, Aug. 20. The Home Office states that Allaway, before his execution ..ntbeLnl.August, for the murder of Miss Wilkins, confessed his liuilt.; VIENNA, August 26.

'lt is reported that Mr-Henry Ford, who is 'now spending a holiday at Carlsbad, is negotiating with a view to using The Steyr Small Arms Factory ns the nucleus of a huge motor-car factory.

EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE. LONDON, August 26. Edwin 'Raymond Wilkinson, a Liverpool business man, who has just paid n'hurried visit to Australia, was arrested on bis return, and was charger! With embezzlement'fit Liverpool.

BRITISH PRINTERS’ STRIKE. LONDON, August -26. As the result of a ballot, the printers strike (cabled 24th. July), has been settled. The. men are -accepting reduction Of 12s Gd weekkly, ■ but in four instalments, spread over nine months.

i * GERMANY’S MARK SLUMP. LONDON, -August 26. ■Mr Samuel Montague’s Weekly Review of the Market says: “It-is quite difficult to find a satisfactory explana-tion’for-the fall of-seventy per cent in the German-mark, in one morning, and 195 per cent in one month. The re-parations-ate not being paid. Payment under - the Clearing 'House scheme is not "being -effected. Apart from these obligations,-whiclv-are not being fulfilled Germany has no foreign debt for which interest Or sinking flirt'd charges must be provided-in'foreign currency. Germany requires her exports to be paid for in foreign currency and the mark • balances standing to tbe credit 6f• the foreign importers, have now lost their value and utility ns a. medium of exchange. Germany is pressing the sale of morn marks,' but foreign importers who should be legitimate buyers, find no use for marks, 'consequently tliey have. Sufik* to 'the level of'mere counters forj speculators. As Germany will not take back her notes in exchange foil godds, the commercial world lias 'Had! enough of them. Marks are useless for the exchange Of 'goods, except in the ; interior of Germany. They are ’ discredited outside Germany. They won't buy German goods. Germany lias scored all the, way. She has exported millions upon milliards of'paper'money in exchange ■ for a huge amount of raw materials,- and for currencies, the foreigner has paper, and at last he is tired •of -the*'game.

MANDATE 'DIFFICULTIES IiOUBON, Although the Australian delegates to th«. T.<»nftne”Of ‘Nationn ''Assembly will be jmnonneed (ns cabled on August 22) it is ; hot improbable that some thiiiiges will bo made, especially ns tliero is a : , possiliility of the Naum mandate being again tinder review At the forthcoming assembly. In this matter, Now Zealand will have the assistance of heij Attorney-General (Sir Francis Boll) to deal with the legal side of the .question. 'Therefore it is likely that Judge ( Rich, who is at> present travelling on the Continent, may, if available, strong-; then the Australian delegation, as is being suggested in a Press cable from Australia. Tliero is also a likelihood that the interests of women may ho specially' re-; presented on the Australian delegation.* GALLIPOLI MEMORIAL LONDON Aug 25. ; A' contriret for a Gallipoli Memorial "has'been accepted. Tt will lie erected) above the cemetery at Cliuiiulc Bay. LEAGUE OF NATIONS PROJECT.; LONDON. Aug 20. 'A 1 League of 'Nations. exhibition, the first of'the kind, ill be held at St AL bans in Stoke-on-Trent, in November. r Tho embassies, legations and consulates of ol countries are helping with the arts handicrafts, and educational work of their countries. Their exhibit swill he shown by stall holders "wearing their respective national costumes. THE FRANC GOES UP. - ' LONDON. August '25. r The rate of exchange on Paris had 'iitfpi’Mrfd.' The jr'anc to-Hay is .quoted itt;4B;7o to‘£l. j'the ttklianTTreTs quoted at IO2L to £l.

union funds. LONDON, August 25. Unemployment pay cost the whole of the British trades union more than £8,000,000 in 1921, as compared with £817,000 in 1020. The dispute benefits cost £2,'229,000, ns compared with £1,875,000 in 1920. Political objects cost ' only ’£87,783 as compared with £IOB,OOO in 1921. The working expenses were £2;540',000 ’as compared with £2,218,000.

BOYCOTT by WELSH WORKERS. LONDON, August 25. The transport workers at Cardiff'have instituted a boycott against an Italian steamer manned by a Fascisti (antiSocialisl) crew. 'lt -Was Alien decided to ask the employers to request the captain of the ship to leave the port in order to avoid far-reaching strife.

EIGHT HOURS DAY. PARIS, August 25. The French Cabinet have approved of a Bill applying tbe eight-hour day •to the ships- of the French mercantile marine.

MURDER MYSTERIES. ROME, August 25. The death-bed confession of a cinema actor'named .Cavallaro, has cleared up a mystery surrounding the murder of an old merchant in Turin, and the second -murder of an elderly woman two months later. With a fellow actor, named Pietro, both being Sicilians, Cavallaro had been engaged in the production of films. Losing their positions, they became penniless and then decided to ‘give a “realistic” turn to the scenes in whicli they acted. There fore, they murdered and robbed their two victims of 300,000 lire. Cavallaro admitted that, hut for his illness, ho would hnve killed others. Pietro lias been arrested. He reproached 'his betrayer, who suddenly collapsPd and died.