MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

IUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION AQUATICS. NEW YORK, Oct. 1. At Mi.lwaukie, Weismuller established three world records by swimming five hundred metres in 6 minutes 24 1-5 seconds ; four hundred yards in .4 minutes forty seconds; and 440 yards in 5 minutes 7 2-5 seconds.

BRITISH FINANCE. LONDON, Oct. 1. The quarter’s revenue decreased L 43,255,000, compared with 1921. The decreases were; excess profits £9,950, 000, excise £8,051,000, customs £3,632,000, postal revenue £1,450,000, special receipts from sales of war stores 027,109,000. Tlie increases were income tax £4,774,000, estate duties £4,014,000, telephones £1,400,000. The six months’ revenue was £403,894,000, a decrease of £52,269,000. The expenditure was £347,423,000, a decrease of £150.570.000, of which the civil service was £69,155,000; Army, I Navy and Air Force £40,060,000 ; interest on war debt £31,751,000.

ATHLETICS. CAPETOWN, October 1. The schoolboy Betts, who recently astounded the South African athletic world by sprinting one hundred yards in nine and four fifths seconds, covered a quarter of a mile in forty-eight and two-fifths second at inter-Sehool sports.

N.S.W. WEATHER. SYDNEY. October 2. The weather is cloudy and cool after a brief hailstorm on Sunday.

SERIOUS INDUSTRIAL POSITION SYNDEY, Oct. 1.

S|H>aking at the Eight Hour Dinner, the chairman, Air O’Reilly, referred to the seriousness of the industrial situation. He said during the past year Labour had been fighting a losing battle all along the line, and the faith of the .workers in parliamentary action had been badly shaken owing to the apathy of the members of parliament.

EORCTNG LEGISLATION. BRISBANE. Oct. .1

The Government gagged tlie Unemployed Workers Bill through the Assembly. the Premier exorcising a proxy vote for the Home Secretary. A number of members of the Opposition left the Chamber as a protest against the gag aid proxy voting. The measure is popularly known as the “ Loafers’ Paradise Bill."

MINING DISPUTES. SYDNEY. October 2. ' The miners in the Northern fields have agreed to withdraw the Dark for one week pending a hearing of the dispute by the Coa] Tribunal. Ministers and miners are convening a conference of tbe southern miners mid owners to consider fho question of electric safety lamps for the mines.

AUSTRALIAN TAXATION. MELBOURNE, October 2. Air Bruce announced the Government had decided to exempt bonus shares from income tax and also decided to tax company profits at the source in stead of when in the hands of tho shareholders.

•EXTREME ACTION. HORART, Oet 1. A determined effort was made .to blow up a hush railway bridge over the Korinandior river by the use of dynamite, making it unsafe for tho loyalists taking the place of the strikers at the TTuon Timlier Company's works at Geeveston.’ Eight charges were placed in the bridge. All exploded except one. A train was about to cross the bridge for the daily supply of sleepers when tbe instructions were countermanded.

AN AIRMAN’S CAFF. PARIS, October 1. J. .Tames, the favourite in the Deutsch speed prize race driving a 450 horse power Bamelmars machine nearly lost his life owing to . strangulation in mid air. He tied a map around his neck and while travelling at 210 miles; an hour, the force of He wind blew the papers and caused tlie string to tighten round his neck. James managed to prevent suffocation, but lost bis map and so abandoned tbe contest.

HERAT AN POLITICS. BERLIN, October 1. Opposition to tlie Government move in regard to corn prices is increasing and lias resulted in linking up the united Socialists and independents, so tlie fate of tho Government is a matter of urgent political anxiety. A NEAY ASPECT. VIENNA, October 1. An astonishing strike is threatened. Tlie authorities refused to allow property owners to raise rent in proportion to the depreciation of the currency. Thus a tenant who paid a thousand crowns before the war should now pay one million nine hundred thousand crowns. Tho authorities admit that rents are not economic ns it is impossible to repair bouses, but they consider that owners demands are extortionate. Owners say they will not light houses, but will close them at six o’clock, and will not pay taxes, gas, water or lighting bills. They will also remove telegraph poles and even letter boxes from the houses.

HUGE INCOMES. WASHINGTON, October 2. The Internal Revenue Bureau has announced that four persons had incomes which exceeded {1 re million dollars in 1920, two of whom are residents of New York, and two of Michigan. Although these porsons are not identified, it is believed flint John R. Reckfeller and Henry Eprd comprise iwo of those receiving the highest incomes. The statistics also show that New York State paid quarter of the entire income tax of the United Stateß, with 039,799,964 dollars.