BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

A CH'I I'.AH *.N AND N CAULK ASSOC I .1 lON WESTRAUAN LOAN Id BEY SCBSCR I RED. B(.).\DON. February 12. 'Hie West Australian Loan has been odlv .siih-crihed. T 1 TANK 11 A.MEN AT W E.M I’I.EY.

(“Sydney Sun" Gables)

(Received this day at 9. Id a.in.) | .ON DON. Eeliriiaiv 12.

The British .sculptor. Auinonier. has la i'll cominissioiied to design a mode! of Tutankhamen's tond. lor the McniI ley Exhibit ion. containing a thousand sterling worth of beaten gold, ivory and alahir-ter. MR BRICE IN G A EEH’OLI. [Received this day at 0.15 n.tn.'l BONDON. Eehrua r.v 12. A. Dardanelles message .says that M • Rnice besides visiting tire hilt t leliehls and a,II ceiiiel cries, also visited the New X,.aland memorial at ( Ininilk linir. lb' expressed appieeiatii the sites ; 11 . -1 architectural treafnient ol the <emeteries. lie also impressed upon tin local Turki-li nut limit ies the -;o redness of the cemeteries to the Dominions J,i;d they assured him it would always h- respected.

PUBLIC SCHO(IBS ROYS FOR N.Z. GREAT INTEREST AROUSED. (Received this day at 10 a.in.) LONDON, February 12. A - a result of the wide publicity attending the departure of the lirst contingent of boys last, week under the New Zealand scheme for assisting public schoolhots lo settle on Dominion farms, i, arousing considerable interest. Sir .Rimes AI In i lias received m the past tliier days, .sixty inpniries tinin pa rts. THE OI.V.MITI STAHIBM. BA R IS. Fehrimry 12. The construct ion ol Ihe Olympic s-la-ilium ill (Tiloliibes. v. hi,, wa.. held Uj owing to Hood- in the Seine, has now been resumed in full swing I here is e.-crv possibility of the Stadium being l end v for the opening rceol.. namely, I lie Rughv football matches coiuiueiici .g on the 3rd ot Ala;. . FRENCH DOMESTIC:;-’ FAIT PARIS. February 12 I to anliu.al meeting ot the Trv.gh la ii;.e „(r vi> niorganisation, rallied a re elution demanding that, henceforth, they will he styled household employees am! not “domestics’’ and receive, salaries not “wages”. ENGINEERS DOWN TOOLS. DISPUTE OVER NIGHT RATES.

(Received this day at 10 a. 111.) LONDON. February 12. Eight hundred engineers downed tools in Southampton to-night owing to Hai land and W olfl .s proposal to reduce the night shift from time and a half to time and a third. CHILDREN FROZEN TO DEATH. MOSCOW, Eeh. 12. Between the Kltli of December and the 25i1l of January Hie frozen bodies of 1035 children have been lound in the streets of Moscow. The police rescued 3,795 children from death by coin. SVIOKE SETTLEMENT LIKELY. LONDON, February 12. The dockers dispute i- iik"!y to he settled as the employer.- are granting the florin instalment. KING VISIT,B WEMBLEY. LONDON. Eehrua ry 12. The King visited the British Eni- ! Ire Exhibition.

TRADE WITHIN THE EMPIRE GERMANS SECURE CONTRACT. CAPETOWN. Eeh. 12. A large order for railway material, including rails( tyms. axles and waggons for the Union Government has been secured by German mumifaet itrrrs, tlm sum involved being considerable. British linns were completely nut-run. NATAL TOWNSHIP ORDINANCE. CAPETOWN, l-Vb. 12. The Governor-General in Council lias reserved his assent to the Natal Township’s Ordinance, passed by the Natal Provincial Council hist year. Hm 01 dinance sought lo debar Asiatics, from the Municipal train liise. A similar ordinance was passed several times, but has always been vetoed hv the Government.

TFTAXKUAMF.X FOFXI). CAIRO. February 12. Tutankhamen's mummy has been found :it Luxor.

WF.STP.AUAN LOAN. LONDON. February 12. Correct ion—The underwriters received forty-eight per cent of the Most Australian loan. BRITISH FIRMS BADLY BEATEN (Received this clay at 10 a.m.) LONDON. February 12. Following on a German firm's success in securing the contract for the supply of locomotives for India, conies the news ttiat an Italian firm is the successful tenderer for thirty locomotives for the Egyptian State railways. Thirty-one firing competed, including nine Riitish. The lowest tender, which was accepted, was from a Milan firm at £3B-10 each. 'The British tenders ranged from £.->OF> to £7035. It is understood that dttei the closing of the tenders a German firm quoted hv telegraph even lower than the accepted price.

The “Times’’ comments: "That foreign firms should have secured the contracts in what hitherto has been regarded as strong English markets is disquieting, "