BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. BRITISH STORMS. LONDON, Feh. 28. The si entiior Banffshire, bound for Sydney, encountered a terrific hurricane in the Bristol Channel. During the height of the storm. fire broke out in t’ne forehold, where the cargo included 30 tons of dynamite. Tie? fire was extinguished. The ship i ; docking at Avonmoutb.

The Americau liner. President Artliui. arriving at Plymouth L* hours late, mnng to her heaving to in an Atlantic gale wherein the wind velocity was I2U miles an hour.

The weather has caused a. remarkable change in the beach al Portland. To.j fishermen there were able to examine, for tile first time, lor half a eeniun. the remains ol Hie sailer Royal Adelaide, wrecked in 1872. Much golrt is in the vessel, and many sovereigns and Spanish coin-, dated R'7l, welti eecnt lv recovered.

PRINCESS MARY’S IL\ BY. LONDON. February 26

Princess Mary’s son will he christened at (Joldsborough Parish Church near Knaresborough, on P-h-i Sunday, which will synchronise with Lhe veil ol the King and Queen to Know-ley Inf the Grand National.

>, BITTER SCENE LONDON. 2 s - There wa- an amazing, hitter set-lie in toe House of Commons, when Mr Crook in hi maiden speech, moved a motion urging the strict control ol alien immigration. Colonel Paget angrily deelared (hat the Scottish Labourites were nut returned by Scottish votes.

Mr Kirkwood: Hit badna liven for the Scotch, ilie Germans would hi'e leathered ye!

Colonel Paget, angrily declared lhai actions ol .-'mi:- mombeis ol lh- House of Commons ecu etl the tb-ath el tee gallant Fifteenth Division, in which I served I

Pandemonium eiism-d, Mr Kirkwood leaping up. lit- passionately and mcn-iu-inglv waved his hands, and -limited :

“You are a liar I” Mr Robertson: 1 had I’nur soils in the war! All- Buchan al-o attempted to get at Paget, and called him a- “dirty cur!’’ Tlie Speaker intervened, saying Paget’s remarks were offensive.

Paget apologised ami lhe motion was carried by 212 to 107 votes.

A Labour amendment that tie- >ighl of asylum in England be preserved for all. was defeated. MINES ENQUIRY REFUSED. LONDON. .March 1. Mr Herbert Smili. President of the Miners' Federation, in leading a depilating to Air Ronar Law demanding an enquiry into miners’ pay and conditions, held it was imperative that, there should be a grant of early relief to the miners, whose wages had been constantly graded down. Mr Frank Hodges (Secretary), held that the miners’ wages, expressed in terms of the cost, of living, were the lowest of all similarly calculated wages in Europe. Mr Bonar Law continued that en enquiry now, when the eon! trade was booming would he foolish, foal prices would soon produce better wages.

Afr Vernon Hartshorn, Af.P.. stated that the miners had been starving since November 1021. Afr Hodges: “It is like asking men to wait For a hearse to .come." Mr AYnlsh. supporting the increase asked the Premier: “Tf it does not materialise, shall we come to you again with newer facts?” .Afr Bonar Law: “Tf you like, hut you must give the boom time to show distinct results. We are net prepared for an enquiry yet and can do nothing.” BRITAIN'S EXPORT TRADE. LONDON, March I. Sir Jovnson Hicks addressing South-

ampton Chamber of Commerce, said Britain’s export trade was three hundred millions down compared with 101:’. hut the revival which began last autumn, was slowly and steadily progressing, and 1023 would show considerably improved figures. Alluding to German shipbuilding, he said that. Germane was not a poor country. Some people imagined she would he a serious competition oi the world’s shipping.

salvage operations. LONDON. March I. Salvage operations have I c-giin La raise the armoured cruiser Natal, sunk in Cromarty. Firth, on New A ear’s Eve. 1915. when three hundred men. women and children mostly guests lor New Y r ear festival peri lled by n explosion. the cause of which is a mystery to the present. It is expected to take a couple of years to raise the vessel. THE FAMOCS AIOEAVE. LONDON. March 1.

The ox-raider Moewe. now rcimnied Green Brier, appeared in a new role by rescuing the crew ol a Milford trawler, seventy miles south west of Daunt Rock. They unsuccessfully endeavoured for three hours to pa«s a hawser aboard the trawler and eventually took the crew off in a lifeboat. A FRENCH ORDER. PARIS. March 1. General Degonttee has decreed that Ruhr mine owners who fail ot pay the coal tax will be followed hv courtmartial and imprisonment till paid. DISPLAY OF LING MR lE. PARTS. Ala rch I.

Exporters of silks and lingerie are suffering as the result of a campaign at Buenos Ayres by the League of decent minded women, who forwarded protests to the French Government against window displays of lingerie. The League is violently opposing delicately attired wax models, saving the figures are seductive, at which youths are continually gazing, and girls are developing an exaggerated passion for scanty clothing. The League wants the lingerie displayed on wooden pegs. French exporters disagree. TOBACCO MONOPOLY. PARIS, March 1.

The Government ha s nominated Andrei Citroen to administer the state tobacco monopely .and reorganise the manufacture and sale on modern lines. Citroen was State business man before the war. and then organised a huge munition factory for the Government ii Javel quarter of Paris. After the. war he transformed the works into a n ilor car factory with such success that he was nicknamed the “French Ford.”