BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AtISTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SWEDEN’S LIQUOR. POLL. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Aug. 28 Provisional figures of the Swedish plebiscite arc:— For prohibition. 772,747

Against prohibition 846,536 The latest returns seem to indicate that the prohibitionists have lost the day.

Among the principal centres, Stockholm [Hilled for 21,906, against 138,300, Gothenburg, for 19,603, against 51,487. A SWIMMER. ..Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 28. Tom Morris (Australian) has begun training at Dover. He will attempt to swim the Channel early in September.

CARGO FOR AUSTRALIA. LONDON, Aug. 28 The Hanau "took six hundred tons of general cargo from Hamburg, Bremen and Antwerp for Australia. GERMANY’S ACCEPTANCE. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 28. Germany has accepted the Reparations Commissions invitation for a conference in Paris. Bergmann, Hermes, and Stinnes will represent her. It is understood the German Government agreed in return for a moratorium, to allow complete control of the finances by a Commission acting in the name of the Allies, providing such a body lie composed of representatives of parties outside the present discussion, preferably American ( financiers In this connection it is interesting to note from messages from Berlin that the political parties in Germany received with satisfaction the proposition hv Governor Cox. made in London that Herbert Hoover he nominated as Arbitrator in regard to the amount of German reparations.

LEIPZIG FAIR. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Aug. 28. At Leipzig autumn fair, exhibitors are more numerous than in the spring, totalling thirteen thousand, while one hundred thousand visitors are expected. The collapse of the mark has brought to a standstill the import of English coal. It is hoped an agreement, wherein men will agree to work six hours overtime weekly, in return for increased pay will make good the shortage.

AVIATORS SATL. (Received this dav at 12.25 p.m.) DELHI, Aug 28. The aviators sailed from Chittagong for Calcutta. Search for the seaplane lias been abandoned. ARAB CONGRESS. JERUSALEM, Aug 28. The Arab Congress at Nablus resolved to oppose the proposed Palestine Constitution, and to endeavour to secure iiulepenence by legislative means. They declined to acquiesce in Palestine becoming a Jewish National home and to oppose the Zionist immigration.