MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

4DSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE AHBOCIATION I.IN'ER ASIIt>I!K. A CO.MI'I.KTK AVI! KCK. (Received this (lily at l--** l P- ,n • > l.(iNI)!).\. S-:'|cinhi i 17. '|'|i;. Leylaml liner Asian, - '(‘CO inns from New Orleans, is a-lmrc at Shag I’oek. between (!;i!ley Ileal and I'ast,.et. The vessel is raj.idly breaking up and the destroyer Sea AYoll wirelessed that, she had picked up the passenj»ers and erew. One lircinan died. UMPIRE I.AB'.H'R, CONFERENCE. (■Received this day at, 1.30 p.m-) LONDON Sept. 17.

At the r.ritish ('omnie.uwealtli Lahour Conference, organised hy tlie Trades Congress, Britain and all the Dominions and lepres. nted. Ihe .'genila included inter-CnmmomvcaHh relaticns, inter-C..nnnnn:wealt,!i mitral ion, the t.realatent ef native suhjecl races, '•l.almur Early relations throughout the Empire, the maintenance c.f the A\ nrld s ,:,.aee and the pn'itinl and e "memie programmes of the Empire’s I'jirties. The | riminal speakers were Messrs Poidton (President). 'I i 1 Lanshury. Davis, the ur.der-Hecrelnry of the Heme Ollhe. Cram ) (Kailwnymen). . . The proceedings were private, hut it is understood tl.e s):ce:l.es favoured the promotion of an iuter-Tmperial l.ahour policy on the subjects embraced in the ilKen.ln. BLAZING Oil. AVEI.T.S.

(“Sydney Sun” Cables)

(Received this day at 10.23 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 17.

The “Daily Mail" stales the entire population of Baku was mobilised o Mib-due thirty-seven blazing oil wells, also the reservoirs, supplying the hulk of Russia's exports. SIX KILLED BY MOTOR. ST JOHN'S (Newfoundland) Sept. 17. Six persons were killed in a < it.' street when an auto, driven hy L.'o,uml Reid, son of a Homer head ol th Newfoundland railway, crashed into a crowd.