MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Reuters Tki.eorams.] ! XKW loan proviso. i LONDON, dime 17. The llrishanc-T] swicli Water Board | has underwritten £1.000.000 worth of j live per cent, stock, at 91. with a pro-j visa that the transferees shall pay j stamp duty on the transfers Ihisi : makes the price equivalent to 93. The proviso is a now feature in this i class of loan. | TAR lEE AGITATION. LONDON. June 18. ! Rt Hon I’. Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchequer) stated in l lie House ol . Commons that the Govornniont would earoesLl v consider Mr Baldwin s proposal that the whole ol the Australian food production lor Britain should he sent to Britain and distributed hy the Government, at the cost ol the space. In the Commons, during the prefer-] cnee debate, Mr Snowden promised Unit the Government would earnestly , consider Mr Baldwin's proposal, which.! he understood, was that the Govciir-; incut should arrange with the Cnvoin-j incut of Australia that, while Australian production should lie sent to Bri-j lain and distributed hv the Govern-1 men! here at cost price. I lie Govern-j he said, already had gone some distance in that direct inn. because 9 had proposed irt the Dominions the establishment of a portnanciH Economic Coiniuittcc to consider the possibility .ol increasing the consumption ot Empire food products ill the Coiled Kingdom, and the pronmliiig ot the interests ol Imtli ppm I iifi'j* ;i ml i’iihsuiihm*. ITALIAN MYSTERY. (Received this, da.v at 9.15 a.ni.l ROME, June 19 Eilipelli is undergoing many hours of stringent interrogation, hot no light has so far been thrown on Matteotti’s fate, except the allegedly damming evidence against Dumini. in whose luggage it was stated blood-stained nr-, tides were discovered.

AGAINST THE TI RE. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. June 19. The Primitive Methodist Coiilerouee at Newcastle adopted a resolution expressing grave concern at paid Koya.tio< increasing their association with the turf, adding; “We regard horse racing as being largely resnnti-ihlu for the widespread gambling which is terrihlv menacing in its died upon the nation's young life. Some -tens should lie taken to focus the opinion of all free churchmen in order that their cmphatic protests should reach the ear.- of the rulimx House/* DEATH SENTENCE. T.ONDON. June 20. Goldenherg, ctihled on May Ist., was foiiiKl guilty nnil sfiitc»>wl to tlentli.

A XOTAIIi.E ARREST. ROME, June 19. The police have arrested Grovanni Murinelli, an ex-member of the Faseisti Directory, in connection with the Mattcotti The arrest has amazed and shucked the public. as Murinelli has been Administrative .Secretary of the Party since its foundation. enjoying an authority, second only to Mussolini. He recently lost Alns-solini’s confidence. AMERICAN KILLED. PEKING. June 16 Advices from Wanhsien state the American, Harley, manager of Arnold and Company of Shanghai, was killed hv junkmen who are agitating against steamers, as taking away their living. OBITUARY. PEKING, June 19 Obituary.—Frank Carpenter, a wellknown American traveller and author, at Naneing.