BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MOTOR CYCLING RECORDS. LONDON, August 21. Horseman, on a3l h.p. Triumph motor cycle, with side-ear, broke the world’s record for five and ton miles doing tho distance in 232.80 seconds and 480.55 seconds respectively. Herbert be Vack, on a 2:1 New Imperial solo mount, covered five miles from a flying start in 205.59 seconds and 10 miles from a standing start in 420.014 seconds. Both are world’s records. FREE STATE ELECTIONS. LONDON. Aug 21. The “Times” Dublin correspondent jays that the Free State nominations are completed. There are 377 candidates and all parties tiro conducting a. strenuous campaign. It is stated, on good authority, that unless the Government is returned wtili it working majority. President Cosgrove may refuse to accept office again. Neither are O’Higgins and Hogan anxious to assume tin l responsibility without a reasonable majority. STRIKE IN CORK. LONDON. Aug. 21. The whole commercial life of Cork is para listed by a strike of the dockers concurrent with the closing of 150 business houses owing to a wage dispute. A NEW DISCOVERY.

LONS N. Aug. 21. Professor Pllingwoi ui. of the South Wales School of Mines, claims to have produced, hy low temperature carbonisation of small coal, what is practically artificial anthracite. This is calculated to revolutionise the coal patent fuel trades, and which will enable the utilization of vast quantities of small coal now wasted. AI'STB ALT AN LOAN. LONDON. Aug. 21. Replying to tt “Westminster Gazette” correspondent, Sir Joseph Cook (Australian High Commissioner) sa\s the reason the Commonwealth floated its big redemption loan in Australia is obviously only to provide redemption money raisetl locally. Sir J. Cook describes the correspondent’s statement that the manufacturers of Australia for trade reasons obliged the Government to reconsider its decision, as “a mere figment of the imagination.

DOCK STRIKE OVER. LONDON. Aug. 21. Kt.r the first time in seven weeks, the London docks are a hive of industry. Foodstuffs are pouring into the markets. Victoria Docks are swarming with men handling mutton from the Kaikottrtt, and nl*o unloading the 11ttrtiiitii and Waiinana. J EGO-SI.A V SPLIT. BELGRADE. Aug. 21. Croatian Republican Deputies have decided to sever relation- with Belgrade, and to take diplomatic action in foreign countries lor tin* purposo oi separating from Jugo-Slavia. INCOME TAX WORRIED LONDON. Aug. 21. At Wandsworth, the Coroner, in returning a verdict of suiide in the ease of a man found hanging at Richmond, said that this suicide was committed as the result of an unsound mind, due to worry, consequent on inability to pay income tax. Itt the past, insomnia and intoxication had been the main causes of suicide, but worry over the pavment of income tax was now a Iroquent cause.