MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN’ t\n K. 7.. CAULK ASSOt'IATIO.

SHORT OF SCRAP IRON. LONDON, rieccmln'i- 30. Owing to the alarming • scarcity of -•ciMp iron, which Germany is imparting in large quantifies restriction will he placed on cxj.’oit immediately. France is taking similar action.

T! PIT A r X'S RKV EX I' E. LOXDOX, T>eceinb r 31. Tlio quarters British revenue amounted to fiISI.fiOn.OOO sterling. customs 1 contributing C'32,5 10.000 excise tux £ in. 187.000 decreases shown in special - receipts from the sale of war stores i £31.877.000 excise £12,373.000, customs 52.008.000. An increase of £ll- - shown in property run! income pix receipts. Xine months revenue totals 0;>30.0fi2000 :i <lecrcase of £01.203.000 and the expenditure was C 572.030.000 a decrease of £107.350.000. PARTS, December 31. Xilhos won on points from Frank Moran in a fifteen round fight for the heavy-weight championship of France. OFPMAX REPARATION VTFAV. BERFTN. Pecendior 3d Twenty five financial experts studied the new reparations plan for submission to Paris Conference. Every bice indnstrv was represented. There was some liveliness and during the discussion as to total offer. Reports vary, but it is believed between twenty and thirty milliards of cold marks were suggested with two or three years moratorium Stinnes considered ail the figures too high. After fourteen hours discussion the plan was unanimously adopted. Government sent a note to AT. Poinraire asking permission to submit the scheme. TTTF CATPO MCRBERE. CAIRO. Pee. 20. (bring to the assassination of Professor AVillinm Robson. Ford Allenby British High Commissioner, has informed the Egyptian Government that there can be no abolition of martial law while such outrages continue. British envnlrv are again patrolling the streets. The Government has promised generous compensation to Professor Robson s widow. The amount will he fixed by ; Ford Allenby

A SOVIET CONGRESS. REVEL, Dec. 28. Advices from -Moscow state that Kamenoff is replacing Lenin, who is in illhealth, at the opening of the Tenth Soviet Enn-Riissinn Congress. Karnenolf stated Government henceforth would make no concessions to foreign Powers and would withdraw those suggested ni the Conference at The Hague and Genoa The period when they were forced to make concessions had ended. Kam enoff added:—“AVe have seen, after Genoa, that Europe cannot get along without us, even if we do not pay our debts.” He termed the Lauunnne Conference as simply an Anglo-Russinn duel. Russians knew the Turks were ready to make big concessions. Russians would not. hut they would support Turkey as long as she was fighting imperialism.” The Congress, which was attended by two thousand delegates. including four hundred from the Republic of Ukraine, White Russia. Ear East and Caucasus, will first- consider the question of union of the Soviet Republic. |

GERMAN ENTERPRISE. PARTS. Dee 30. .Mr Victor Onml.'on, a well-known economist and engineer, lias returned from a. .survey tour of Germany. Ho .-ays that, while other Powers are endeavouring to obtain influx nee in Turkey. Gorin any, by building the IthineAI ti iai- Danube CM,mil is establishing easy relations with Russia, Germany hoping to transform the Black Sen into II German lake. This canal will have political consequences equal to the Suez am! the Panama Canals. The Maine is being enlarged to permit of tlie transit of vessels to Frankfort. The water supply for the higher part of the canal is secured by the building of a pipe line, of one hundred kilomelivs. whereby the florals of the lock will supply the canal. It is hoped that vessels of 1500 tons will he able lo reach the 11 lack Sen.

M. Cam boll also insist.- upon the importance. of the German nitrogen fixation industry .which will supply manure for agriculture, as well as explosives in the event ol war. Ihe capital of the firms now engaged therein is over two millions, and the output is five hundred thousand tons of nitrogen. Germany ia thus no longer in need of Chilian nitrate, but is able to export- a (|iiartef of a million tons of ,-vnt lie-tie nitrogen.

HEROISM AT EIRE. LON DON. Dec. 29

\ mother's heroism was the most roeiarl.ebb' Hidden! oi a foe ill Portsmouth. When the alarm wa- given -he dropped the -oven year old daughter fnmi a window into the arms of the crowd. and then carried a three year old child into ihe si reel and dashed hack to rescue another, despite the fire. She was wearing only a dress, ul.n-li was oil fire. 11« • r hands and face acre scinched l.y tlie llanies. She seized a thirteen year old sun and si niggled with him to (lie -Ink's and collapsed hui was rarrinil out by rescuer ■ 1 ue-pc-u'i l ated the liana'.- and found U crippled hoy -nlincnlod and a litlle I, . • ~\ \ ’ • M • \i K per cent mortgage of Germ my'' wealth, serving a- a guarantee lo int-:T-ualioiial financiers who are prepared to ~.obelise the German debt. unemployed demand. LONDON, January 1. Unemployed demonstrators inter: iowc,l AVandswnrth guardians ami demanded help win h wa- relns il as a ni jorit\ of Hie applicants came from Ihe pi ovinees. The men thereupon leaked t- ?i c. guardians in the Council ( hand ei ■ Ihe police were summoned, loree I the d' nrand ejected the besiegers, who ma'e’ed to Rattersca where they atleniilerl to enter a restaurant saving the G: Indians would pay for a meal. The pohee repulsed the mob after scarp haG'n piny, during which six men were arrested. two of wham were cutene' d to three weeks imprisonmnt. A NEW CARLE. LONDON. De- 31. The Pacific Cable Hoard has placed a. contract, with the Telegraph ( onstnietion Maintenance Coy oi Grecnwieh to lav 1330 miles of eahle for Sydney to South. Pori and Am Island to Suva sections, the work to he completed hy August 1023.