BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

REM RUNNING. CANADA AY 81 STB U.-S.A. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) (VITA AY A, Aug. 29 By an Oriler-in-f’ouncil the Canadian customs officials have been mstiueted to refuse a clearance to vessels of less than 250 tons register with bonded cargoes. This is a step to assist the United States to control the illicit importation of liquors.

A rum running tied is operating from Canada and this consists wholly of small vessels which are obtaining clearances for the West Indies. I hey then dump their cargoes into the t'nited States through the Great Lakes or the Atlantic seaboard. Hitherto the customs officials have been compelled to give clearances to all vessels no matter what size. .MISSIONARIES AIGIiDKRED. IMiKIN, Aug. 30. The North China Daily News, stales Reverends R. A. Whiteside and F. J. Watt belonging to the Church Missionarv Society, were murdered on the 14th bv bandits. near Alienchow, Sy.ecluien. TAIPORTS OF DATRY PROPCCF. RFTFRN TO PRE-WAR PROPORTION'S. (Received this dav at 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 30. AVeddel's review of the dairy ] reduce trade states that imports have now returned to pre-war proportions. Supplies of butter from overseas doling the year ended June ~oth. -x----oee.U'il all previous records amounting 229.001 tons of which Denmark sent 81,082. New Zealand 03.010. Australia 32.750. Canada 7,038, Argentine 22,159 t'le ] roportion of Empire supplies to the total imports being .forty-five per cent as com pa red with twenty per cent in 1913-14.

The cheese imports which only oner nave been exceeded were 135.503 tons, of which New Zealand exported 73.125, Canada 45,823. Australia 2.709.

FRENCH WIDOWS (Received this dav at 11.45 n.m.) PARIS. Aug. 30. According to an official return 1 10. 000 French war widows have remarried exclusive of 1728 who married Inreiguc i s. AVIIISKV RENNERS. (Received this day at 12.45 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 30. The “Daily Express” publishes an interview with Capt. Clare. Commodore of the so-called whisky fleet, trailing Ik? tween Nassau. Bahamas. and l -S A. He said he was not a smuggler, hut a legitimate trader. He sold gooffs which were in demand just as he might have mid m any market place. H's market place was the high seas. lie made two trips from Nassau in ! '-'4 and never ome had been nearer the American -on-t than eighteen miles, and never onci had seen preventive ■mm Clare .-aid all America cannot stop' -.‘oil in this game if you arc careful. '(’inhibition bus, been a regular Philosopber’s stone to little one horse Nassau Skv*•raping warehouses lia'.e {.e'en rushed >ip and crammed with v hifkv also neat blocks ot offecs ami sumptuous hotels. Men. who two vents ago were struggling store clerks mm own yachts, country mansions and m»tot cars. One man I worm'd « bought- a slop with bi.rr.mcd money an I made eigbleen thousand sterling u -d----clitc.n to the cost of the ship n. eighteen davs. Another cleared ten tn.msaml in one run out and back, lasting eight days. Even priests and point are engaged in the whisky trade at Nassau.