MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CRITICISING QUEENSLAND. LONDON, May 13. The. ‘Financial News” in an editorial entitled “Pastoral Leases in Queensland,” published before the election. says; “It is not often that a general election outside England has such direct interest for British investors as that in Queensland. The composition of the new Ministry will affect not merely the holders oF loans, hut shareholders in land, pastoral and mortgage undertakings. 'Hie Liberal Party pledged itself, if returned, to repeal the Labour Government’s Repudiation Act, which resulted in Queensland failing to raise a loan on the London market, and being forced to go to the United States Presumably to repeal the measure would involve some form oi compensation.’ BRITISH WORKERS’ DECISION LONDON, May 14. A meeting of tho International Labour Unions held in tho Memorial Hall adopted a resolution pledging the members not to make munitions or take , up arms, or transport troops, food, or munitions, or assist in any war against Russia, and to call on all sections of the working classes to down tools it war with Russia, eventuates. Taoro was also a Labour demonstration in Trafalgar Square against war with Russia. Mr J. Walton Newbokl, ALP., in a fiery oration, declared that tho Russians promised every assistance when the British proletariat were ready to overthrow their rulers, a statement which the chairman of the demonstration hurriedly repudiated. The meeting ended with tne singing of ‘ The Red Flag.” FR ANCE GRATEFUL. PARIS, A Lay 13. M. Poincare, unveiling a war memorial and referring to Air Lloyd George’s speech (cabled on April 10th) ■said France would always lie grateful to those who came and fought in a common cause on French soil, hut sho_ insisted upon her Allies being grateful to France. The Allied dead, of whom the majority were French, barred the way to Calais and London, as well as to Paris.