BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1924, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE RAILWAYMEX’S DISPUTE LONDON, Jan. 20. The day was crowded with industrial conferences which ended at 2.30 o’clock ill the morning, when it was announced that the. locomotive men refused to agree to the tentative proposal 1 which were drawn up as a result 'j-. the earlier meeting of the General Council of Trade Unions and the railway managers, but there still remains the possibility of another meeting with the managers to-day. After a fruitless meeting of the locomotive men with the General Council yesterday morning, a- letter was immediately despatched requesting a meeting with the managers and suggesting a temporary postponement- of the award. The meeting was adjourned till today to enable the Labourites to discuss the proposals separately, with the aforementioned results.

EFFECT OF STRIKE. LONDON. Jain. 20. Owing to the railway strike the Jervis Bay disembarked a majority of lioi passengers at Plymouth instead of at Southampton. They entrained toi London. .MR MASSEY AT SUVA. SUVA, Jan. 21. Arrived;-—Mukura, from Vancouver, which sailed at noun for Auckland. Interviewed. Mr .Massey promised to give consideration, to abolishing the prohibition of the import- of stock from Fiji to New Zealand. Mention was made of a racehorse imported from Sydney which could not now bo exixirted to New Zealand.

Till-: TRKYKSSA EPIC LONDON, Jan, 20. Sir P. Lloyd Greame, on behalf of the Board of Trade, n presenting Mister, skipper of the TreVessa niili a silver tea service, and Smith (chief officer), with a silver inkstand, said the Trevessa epic would live as long as the British Merchant Service. - Foster, replying said the ere" owed (heir lives to the Board of Trade life-boal regulations. TK! KIM lON Id INNOVATION’. PARIS. Jan. 20. The '.lelephone Department is making an intrusting innovation. For sixty francs yearly if. undertake- to supple .subscribers daily with the names and in.nibei's of callers during the sul>-serilc-r'-: absence. WHEAT CARGOES. LONDON, Jan. JO. Wheal cargoes are steady and in good demand. Near loadings of seven thousand tons Australian sold at •16,■'ltl'.d and six thousand at 16/3.

Parcels arc in fair request and tin changed.

FREAK IN WIRELESS. LONDON. Jan. 10 Recently, during the important parliamentary discussions an Aberdeen newspaper man’s confidential trunk telephone talk with a Glasgow editor was mysteriously broadcasted throughout the country from the Aberdeen wireless station in course of its nigbLly prograinme. Experts believe that the freak was due to the induction owing to (be proximity of the telephone wires to the broadcasting station.

HIT BY DUMMY TOPPED*'. I*A UTS. Jan. “0, A Eroiuh suliuiiirino. exercising at tin- entrance to Charbourg, tired a dummy torpedo which struck (lie approaching Amoriciin battleship Colorado. Tho comniniuler of the submarine hoarded the warship and apologised. M ESOPOTA.MI AY EXCAVATION'S. MINDON, Jan. 10. The British Museum authorities. in it report on excavations in Mesopotamia at l’r of (lie Chaldees, say one discovery was a marble tablet on which is :m inscription in the Sumerian language, with the names of a Bodiless and of the builder of a temple. The Sumerian chronology, suvs the report, would assign the statues anil reliefs secured to a dale o-'iOO years before 1 heist. Tfc adds 5f this chronology has yet to he modified, they can say the work in Mesopotamia gives the oldest example of the means of handwriting and the oldest known triumphs of the “art of Tubal Cain.” 1