BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. BONUS QUESTION. LONDON, October 31. The Shipbuilding Operatives Ballot regarding the withdrawal of the last 10s war bonus resulted in a majority of 17.500 against acceptance The men were ordered to continue work pending n eonference with the c-ni; loyers. STRIKE FIZZLES OUT. (Received this day at 10 a.in.) LONDON, October 31. After six weeks, Ebbwvale strike has fizzled out. Six thousand men are working in the principal pits, though it will be some time before the output Is normal, ft is unlikely the blast furnaces of the steel works wilt be able to restart this year. There is great ilistiess in the district. SArAIJL.POX OUTBIIEA K. (Received this dav at 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 31. The smallpox trouble began in Poplar workhouse, where a thousand were hurriedly vaccinated. The epidemic is of a virulent type. The patients nio being sent down tile Thames to Dongreacii where two thousand beds are ready for emergency. Only twenty per rent of the people of Poplar were vaccinated, fifty three per cent being conscientious objectors. -A BRIDAL, GIFT. Received this day at I -.'25 p.in )

BERLIN. Octolier 31. “Vonvaerts” reports the ex-Kaiser’s gift to his bride is a diadem set with seven hundred brilliants and ear-rings. It cost altogether eight hundred million marks. AX ELECTION INCIDENT. (Received this day at 10.30 a.m 1 LONDON, Oct 31. A pirpiant election incident was recorded at Haddington. (Sir A. Balfour’s home) where J. D. Hope (Coalition Liberal member for Berwick, and Haddington), refused to accede to a demand by Liberals Unionists, supported by Sir A. Balfour, that he resign. Sir A. Balfour refused to preside at Mr Hope’s meeting. The Liberals and Conservatives are jointly nominating an oppositon candidate. COMMERCIA L TREATY. (Received this (Lav at 10.30 a.m.) BARIS, Oct 31. Negotiations for a Franeo-Cnnadian Commercial Treaty have begun. Messrs Fcilding and Lapointe are representing Canada. ' LEAGUE OF NATIONS. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) GENEVA, Oct 31st. The Administration Council of the International Labour Office constituted at Washington Conference having expired, a new Council which has not become a member of the Organisation Council comprises twelve Government representatives, six employers and six workers. A JOURNALIST’S VIEWS. (Received this dav at 11.3(1 a.m.) LONDON. Oct 31. Mr H. G. Wells has written to the National Union of Journalists, as the Labour candidate for London University. It goes without saving I believe that working journalists should he organised in such a way as to admit, if the disagreeable necessity arises of combined action against their employers, whereby 1 do not mean editors, but the paymasters, the pro-, printers. I count bur profession as second in importance only to teachers, whose work we supplement and carry on. We are not mere hirelings. Our work is creative and responsible. The action of rich adventurers in buying and directing the policy of groups of newspapers, forms a grave public danger. A free, spirited, well paid, well organised profession of journnlis inis the only protection against it. OBITUARY. LONDON, Oet 31. Obituary.—Father Bernard Vaughan. _