MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A VALUABLE DISCOVERY. LONDON, November 8. Sir John Man, who is controller of Munitions contracts in the Ministry ol Munitions in 1017-1919, states that as a result of the discovery by a young engineer F. Pickett of the method of utilising metal from ammunition dumps after the war, the metal extracted, from six hundred thousand tons of French, British, German ammunition, fetched four hundred millions sterling.

JAPANESE VISIT. CAPETOWN, Nov. 7. A Japanese training squadron of three cruisers has arrived hero. A round of official festivities is arranged in the visitors honour. BAVARIAN REPORT. AMSTERDAM. Nov 8. Tore is an alarming development of* the Fascisti movement. There was fierce fighting at Munich between Fascisti and Socialists, in which the latter were beaten. Seven companies of well-armed Fascisti left Tyrol. Socialists decided to recruit storming detachments under military command to combat tlic Fascisti, to defend Socialist newspaper offices anel trade unions. THE MTNK DISASTER. NEW YORK, Nov 8. The case of the mine disaster at Spanlger is not yet definitely known, though investigators believe that gas in some way ignited. The known dead now total 75, and missing. 5. Of 30 rescued, I arc likely to die. MEAT COUNCIL. The New Australian Meat Council held its inaugural meeting and decided to approach the overseas shipping committee to ask freights from Australia be reduced to the level of New Zealand freights. Mr Rodgers announced the Commonwealth Government will be advised by Council that it recognised that Bnwra did good work for wool, but did not pAsets experience in the meat industry, as the Council did. The Finance Committee recommended forty thousand he raised by compulsory levy tor the first year’s operations, the levy to bo one halfpenny, per head on cattle and one twelfth of a penny on sheep for owners with a hundred head ol cattle and live hundred sheep. WHEAT YIELD. BRISBANE, Nov 9. The Wheat estimate for 1922 season is 1 901.000 bushels. The total in 1921 ’was 3i025,000.

A HUGE GIFT. LONDON, November 8. The “Daily Mail” states Lady Str«theonn figured romantically in connection with McGregor’s bank crash. At the eleventh hour on the strength of a life-long friendship between the two families, Lady Strathcona called at the bank and present McGregor with a cheque for olio hundred thousand. The present could not save the collapse but will enable the payment of « larger dividend.

FRENCH STATEMENT. PARTS November 8. During the debate on the reparations in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Poincare stated that France would not leave the left bank of the Rhine unless the Versailles Treaty was vigorously carried out. ECONOMIC CONFERENCE. BRUSSELS, Nov. 7. Britain has accepted an invitation to the Economic Conference for December 5. IRREGULARS’ ACTIVITY. LONDON, Nov. 7. A force of Irregulars seized Ballineein, in Cork, but Free Staters retcuk it. An official report from Dublin states a large party of Irregulars were located at Foxfora, and a fierce battle is in progress. National reinforcements /h'ave been despatched. The Irregulars dragged two national volunteers from homes in Powellsboro, mutilated them terribly, and then shot them, after a Priest had administered the last Sacrament. The dead men were originally 'Republicans.

EXPERTS’ REPORT. BERLIN, Nov 8. The full riintionul Financial Experts including -1. M. Keynes, (Editor ol the Ecoomie .Journal) and Cassell, submitted to the German Government an outline of their scheme for the stabilisation of the mark. LAUSA NNE CONFERENCE. PARIS, November 7. M. Barriorc French Ambassador in Rome and M. Conr.ard (former French Ambassador to Turkey) have been appointed the French delegates to the Lausanne Conference. AT SYDNEY. SYDNEY, November 9. The Maungainii sailed for Wellington at 1 p.m. The departure of the Moernki, which should have sailed this afternoon was delayed. The cause of the trouble is stated to.be tlio firemen, who declare the stoke-hold is undermanned, and they demand the appointment of three additional firemen. Negotiations between the officials of the company and the Seamen’s Union have so far been ineffective. The Company claims the men’s demands exceed requirements of law. The Union Company's steamer Wnikawa, scheduled to leave for Nauru this afternoon, is also held up.