BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

• I AUSTRALIAN AM) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

BEY AN’S TUIAL. LONDON, Sept 14 'At the hearing of the charges against Derat'd Bevan, in connection with the City Equitable Insurance Co., an accountant gave evidence that Bevan at lirst had demurred, when asked to facilitate an inquiry into the aaffirs of the City Equitable Company'. Then he produced an out-of-date list of investments. Witness was subsequently given a new list which altered things for the worse. Witness had informed a . meeting of insurance managers at which Bevan was present .that tiie assets would probably only he realised at a heavy loss. Bevan had suggested that he knew a financier who might hud money' to support the company, hut this suggestion proved resultless. The bal-ance-sheet did not disclose the financial position of the company. t

GERMAN TRADE. LONDON, September 14. The Wahche, the first German lino to call at Southampton since the war has sailed, resmnifig the regular German service to West Africa. BARIS UPSET.

LONDON, September 14. “The Times” says: Paris is undergoing a rather nerve-racking experience, as the result of a sudden incicasc in the craze for abandoning explosive shell souvenirs. The owners are dropping them in all sorts of handy and unexpected places—in roadways, on the seats of railway' carriages, in public gardens, in restaurants, and in gutters. Yesterday’s list included a parcel of eight under a dust heap, and another in the courtyard of a boulevard, and another in a ticket office at the Guide ties Invalides. Since the beginning of the year, 5000 have, been picked up in

public highways, and since September Ist they have been discovered at the rate of 50 daily.

LABOUR ELECTION CAMPAIGN. LONDON, September 14. The Labour party is endorsing over four hundred candidates for the coming general election. They include 71 out of 75 present Labour members of the House of Commons. There are over 2.-100 local Labour organisations throughout the country, with which eight hundred women’s sections, with a membership of eighty thousand, associated with the Trades Unions is nominating about half the Parliamentary candidates. The others include a dozen women. STOWAWAYS THROWN OVERBOARD. LONDON. Sent 15. A Portuguese report from Rio states the German captain of the steamer John St Martin threw into the sea. twelve Portugeuso stowaways. Eleven wt ro rescued.