MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION BIG FIGHTS IX BRITAIN'. LONDON', Nov. XT Torn Webster, in an article in the “Despatch,” asks why does the present day heavy-weight light usually end in a fiasco. He answers hiiusell thus: “There is too much at stake these days for men lo do themselves justice. Defeat, while not meaning exactly 'oblivion, practically puts a boxer out of the running of any real big money. Men like Carpenticr find roxponsiblitv an incentive, hut it is a handicap to men ol lesser mental calibre, of which the British ring is composed to-day.” F.X EAIPLOYFD DEMONSTRATION. LONDON. Nov. XI. There was a demonstration by unemployed in Trafalgar Square. It also included several London Mayors and Labour candidates. The speeehes enndoinncd the Coiiservat ive and Liberal Parties, and the capitalist system. A resolution was unanimously passed deiiouiieiug lie* (Hivcriimont's programme, regarding winter work, as wholly inadequate and belated, de-

claring that whatever party was returned to power it should like .steps to provide useful employment at trade union rates, pending which full maintenance should he conceded. 11.N1.5. NEW ZEALAND. LONDON.. October 10. !I.M S. Chatham is 10 be replaced by an up-10-dale cruiser, now known as the Dunedin. The Admiralty have '•unseated to this exchange and the Dunedin will leave for Dominion waters at the end of the year, or possibly sooner. A change of name is to he mr.de, however, and the cruiser is to he known as 11.AES. Now Zealand. The Dunedin has no war record. Her l.ve! was laid down during the war at Me-srs Armstrong’s. .She was launched on November liHli. 1018, and completed in October, .1 DIO. She has a designed horse-power of -10,01.0, the mean housepower on trial being 111.1 1,1. Her dis- ] lavement is -ifioO tons, anil she travels ■j;i knots an hour. The cruiser is fitted for oil fuel, and has an oil carrying capacity of 10,10 tons. fu length she is J72ft Gin, in breadth •Hilt., and her draught fully loaded is 10ft pin. She carries six Gin guns, two Gin guns, Inur 3 pounders, two d-pound pompon!'-, two machine guns, eight Lewis guns, and lour triple in-

volving torpedo tubes. Since 11.M.5. Dunedin was commissioned she bus been practically all tbo time with the First Light Cruiser Squadron as part, ot the Atlantic THecl. She is fitted as a flagship with extra quarters for Admiral and staff. At the present time she is at liivergordon, on Cromarty Firth. Scotland, and is commanded by the Hon. Alexander Ramsav. win,, it. will be remembered, married Princess Patricia, daughter of the Duke of Connaught. In all probability a special volunteer .rew will be selected to take the ship out to New Zealand and to bring H. A 1 ,S. Chatham home again. .1 A PAN'S FIN ANCE. LONDON, Nov. XI. The Tokyo Government's proposal for a settlement of the' long-pending insurance Lsite purports to he a two per cent loan to the insurance companies, amounting to the equivalent of ten per cent of the claims against the (Oinpai’Fs which the tuinpamiv. will pay. I’.e companies are asked to creole an ofgani: alien to which all w ill subscribe to guarantee the redemption of ihe loan. The final details are expected to be settled after a conference with the represental ives oi all the companies.

The reconstruction estimates, which have received final sanction by the ( abinet, closely approximate to the figurerecently cabled. It is expected the money will he raised by a loan on tile domestic market, which is believed to ho able to finance same, according to a statement by the Minister of Finance, who added that if any foreign leans ware i-sued they would he issued only to preserve the balance of I rude. Such an issue is considered unlikely for the next two years .The estimates do n"t include the amounts to ho raised by the Tokyo and Yokohama municipal bund issues, hut include interest thereon. Such municipal issue is estimated at 173 million yen. THE STEAMER FIRE. LONDON, November XL The “Daily Chronicle's” Marseilles correspondent says: Gttiseppo Race. a. Maltese, is the only one. out ol at least a dozen stowaways w lm lias survived (lie fire and explo-doiis aboard the -ioaneo Otterburn. He admits that matches wevo struck in Llw alter bold, v.-lmre the stowaways bid. Apart from the stowaways, seven members of the new perished. Ift 7 DAYS OUT. SYDNEY. Nov. XL The barqueiitinc Kathleen Mackall, after being Id” days out on a voyage from Columbia River to Melbourne, for which all vessels had been ordered by the Navigation Department to keep a look-out. unexpectedly arrived to-day at Sydney. She was -hurl of provisions and water. She was last seen mi the 2!)th of October off Deal Island, when the steamer Kara nut supplied her with stores.