MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1925, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION GERMAN SUMP. LONDON, June 15. The “Morning Post's” Berlin correspondent states: The economic situation in Germany is most difficult. I lie mine owners have eleven million tons of coal which they are unable to sell, unless they charge the foreigners a less price for it than they charge the German consumers. r I lie quotations for the leading industrial shares have fallen heavily since January. and many are now only half the price that they were six months ago. Thus tin Hamburg-Ameriran Shipping Line shares were 95 in January, and are only 50 now. The Rhoinischo Steel Works shares were then 11-1, and are now only 70. The German producers are unable to sell their goods abroad, as their prices are too high, and they nre unable to sell them at home because the people are only inlying absolute necessities. The industrialists hope to onfonc a general reduction in wages, but the workmen now are .so badly paid that this probably will prove impossible.

DESTRUCTIVE E \RTHQUAKES. TOKIO, June 15. Do-spatHics from Karenko. in Formosa. report a series oi earthquakes on Sunday, doing extensive damage to buildings. There were no casualties. AIR SERVICE DICCXTINFED. (Received this day at 11 .‘do a. til A CAPETOWN. June Id. After a three months’ experiment the Union Air Mail Service is Wing discontinued on the ground that it is uiireiuuiierativo. Idle last flight from Capetown to Durban is being made today. From a living point of view the service has been a complete success and it has attained one hundred tier cent, efficiency, being well up to time on every occasion; but the support, both from Britain and the Ltiion was inadequate.

PERSIA’S DIGNITY. GENEVA, June 15. M. 11 abibullalt, a Persian delegate, withdrew from the arms conlerence owing to the adoption oi articles deal ing with tlie supervision of the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman, which Persia considers derogatory to her sovereign rights and dignity. RAND MINERS. Uioee.ved this day at 9.15 a.m.) Capetown. June is. A ballot taken among the Rand miners in connection with the recommendation of the De A iders Commission's report in favour of an ndvanee- in the miners’ wages, shows that seventy-ii\e per cent of the members nf the Union are prepared to strike if it is found necessary to enforce the ■recommendation. Nothing, however, will lie clone until the completion of the negotiations with the Engine-drivers Union for the proposed formation of a federation of white employers in the mining industry. SOVIET AIDS CHINA. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m ' LONDON. June 15. The “Daily Mail's’’ Riga torres| undent states tlie Soviet Government is despatching train loads of ammunition, field guns and stores to General Cluing Tsoi in in support of the Chinese antiEuropean movement. FRANCE'S FINANCIAL PLIGHT. PARIS. June 15. M. Caillaux at a banquet at Beauvais. referring to France’s financial difficulties said he assured them it was still possible, tint only just possible. to right the ship of State. Never was there so in neb need for the twin spirits of sacrifice and discipline, ft was a thankless task to tell tlie truth to the eoiirdry from whieli li"- lioili been withheld ten years in older not tu offend its susceptibilities. Continuing M. Caillaux said:—“We must have the courage to insist on the State reducing expenditure. The hour had come when the nation must reduce its standard of living in order to keep within its resources. .1 am sorry 1 have been obliged to ask for such efforts, not only from tlie very rich, hut from all taxpayers according to their means.” A TRAGEDY. NEW YORK. June 15. Two years ago .Mrs Grogan, of Los Angeles lost her husband, "ho left a fortune of two million dollars, made through oil .speculating. The widow who had a nineteen year old son, Patrick, later married Thomas Voting a leading Los Angeles dentist. .Mrs Young mysteriously disappeared in February last, since when the police have kept a watch on Voting, finally arresting him on a charge of murdering his wile. After his arrest. Voting made a confession in which he stated he killed his wife and placed her body in a cistern near their country bungalow, which Patrick, without any knowledge that the crime was committed. assisted him to fill with cement. After the confession the police visited the bungalow and unearthed the body from the cement. The police were long baffled bv the cleverness with which Young concealed the crime. Eventually they obtained a clue brought bv rdiamoud ring, which lie removed fiom the dead woman's linger and presented to his girl office assistant. Ihe g' handed it over to the police.