MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1924, Page 3

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

——— RESUMING WORK. fitKUTKKS Tki.KGKAMS.] LONDON, Feb. 27. Mass meetings of members of tin Stevedore Unions at l’oplar. Canningtown and Bormatidsey unanimously decided to call off tbe strike and worn will be resumed to-morrow.

LUNACY CASE FINDING. LONDON, Fell. 27. In the Harnett Lunacy ease, the .Jury awarded £2.3,Ofip damages against the doctors. TRADE RETURNS. LONDON. Feh. 27. [n the Commons, replying to Sir Charles Cayzer, Mr Sidney Webb said the appropriate dillerenee based oil last year’s trade returns between preferential duties on British produce inantifncLuivs and duties oil simihu foreign goods, charged by Canada. Australia, New Zealand and South Alrien is twelve millions sterling.

WAR SETTLEMENT. PARIS. Feb. 27. The Ambassadors’ Conference have assembled to discuss the British memorandum on military control of C.ermany, which proposes to revive the m-ter-Allied plan of Sept. 1922, substituting a committee of guarantees wit i limited functions, for the present. Control Commission. The plan was dropped owing to the occupation of the Ruhr.

GERMAN OPINION

BERLIN, .Feb. 2

A semi-official statement rid use* t” believe H- Jfilisl. Gevernmeut W ij.l lend a hand t.i (lie ciicronenmeut of German sovereignty involved in tlio revival of the Uuaiaiities Committee, which is not provided lor in the Versailles Treaty.

xaval conference. ROME, Feh. ■ The Naval Conference closed with an official declaration of unanimity which it is difficult to reconcile with the reports of "dissension unions the deleentes, notwithstanding a .semi-official denial. The Spanish delegates puhlished a frank statement explaining turn he retired l>ecanse he failed to Secure general support for tonnage of Ki-jM hi, instead of the permitted eighty-three thousand Russia uncompromisingly claimed four hundred thousand tons an d also the closure of the Baltic and Dardanelles to all warships.

QUEENSLAND to an. LONDON. Fbruary 2,. Commenting on Mr Hieodoie, thi Queensland Premier’s miss,on re n loan the Financial Editor of the “Dnilv Telegraph” says: “In ordinary circumstances, the Queensland convcrfion loan would he comparatively easy, but an unfortunate situation has been created by the notorious Queensland legislation amending an Act whereuuder the annual rents of pastoral lease were fixed. The efforts to justify tins amendment have failed to move mvostin s’ concern. The rate for the conversion loan must naturally ho affected as a result of such an incident. Furthermore, Queensland’s policy in permitting recurring small deficits, due principally to the Government running experimental!. Apartments, _ _ docs nothing to improve her credit.’

WOOL SALES. LONDON, Feh. _>7.. The next series, of the London colonial wool sales will commence on the Pftrh March instead of the Hth as the result of the dock strike.