METEOROLOGICAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1925, Page 3

METEOROLOGICAL.

WEATHER FORECAST AT MOON. The indications are for easterly winds strong to gale and backing by east to north. Conditions continue threatening. The weather appeals likely to be cloudy and unsettled with rain' following. Barometer falling.

Pnion officials have also been instructed to get in touch with the engine drivers and consider means for the reduction of the workers’ unions with a view to forming a federation of white employees in the mining industry. PANIC OX GI'XROAT. Received tins day at 0.26 a.m.) PEKIN. May 11. prom Shanghai a report states a house boat with two Britishers, Messrs I,aiv.-.on Hall and Walker and their wives and children aboard, was returning tu the harbour from a pleasure trip ju-L before nightfall and when nearing a Chinese gunboat, it suddenly without warning fired it liisiilade at the house-boat with rifle tire, l.awson anil Hall were wounded in tin- thigh. The British Consul-Gen-eral has entered a strong protest and lie was informed the shooting was the out' mil ■ of the crew of the gunboat becoming panic stricken owing to a warning ol an impending attack by an opposing faction. CORK ( 11 A.M IRON ”Ii P. LONDON. May 11. llm golf (•hitiupielis! ips entries include ihe New Zealanders and .Major Burnham. WOMEN'S t (INFERENCE. WASHINGTON. May 11. Tim Council of Women completed tlie a tien of the disarmament resolution hy adopting a xciond *e. tieii calling the

attention of member-, to tin- proto ol on the subject known as the Geneva, draft, drawn up by the fifth assembly of the League of Nations. FRENCH DEBT TO U.S.A. WASHINGTON. May Pi. That informal conversations relative to French debt .settlements us again in ) regress lias he n disclosed hv the State Department. hut, it i- reiterated that Government has sent n > formal com in mi it ali' n to Frame.