MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TRADE HARRIER. PARIS, Feb. .6. M. Slobeletf, Soviet Commercial Agent in France, is going to London with his staff, having completed the liquidation of the Agency here, owing to the decision of tho Seine Tribunal that Franeo-Russian trade, although legal, must lie undertaken at the trailers’ own risk, and cannot enjoy the protection of the French Courts, so long as the French Government does not recognise the Soviet Government. CHURCH UNION. [Reuters Telegrams.] LONDON, Feb. 7. . The Archbishop of Canterbury in a statement to the Convocation of Westminster, emphasized the Alalines conversations on 27th Dec., were not even within a measurable distance of negotiations. hut were private conversations about respective histories -and doctrines of the churches of England and Romo. TAXATION AND ECOXOAIY. LONDON. Feb. G. The “Star’s” political writer says that the Government has no intention of interfering with the income tax m the 1924 budget, but is adopting the most, stringent measures against tlio • evaders of the tax. and in the direction of the expenditure in the various departments, particularly ‘he services. These measures are to provide funds to meet the present policy. If Labour is in power in 1925, it will raise the income tax exemption limi«. combined with an increase also in tho income tax and the super tax on death duties. more iaiaitgraxts. LONDON, Feb. 6. Sir .las Allen has toured the naval orphanages in the South of England -n connection with the Wool Profits migration scheme. -The tour shows that some difficulty will he experienced in obtaining a full quota of 50 orphans quarterly. The first party will he toady in Alay. FRENCH FINANCE CRISIS. PARIS, Fob. G. Openly referring to the late Caillaux plots, Premier Poincare, amid angry seense, warned the Chamber of Deputies of the possibility of a distatorship of the Radical Herriot, if the Government’s civil service reform were defeated.