MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1925, Page 1

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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11-11 OUR WEEK BILL. SYDNEY, September 10. I'li,, Assembly read a- first time tho fourty-four hours per week bill.

329 WARRANTS. .MELBOURNE, September 10. It is now announced that .1-9 uatrants have been issued against the* seamen. The latter tit a mass meeting decided to march oil masse to the watch house to-morrow and give themselves up. The President of the Overseas Strike Committee, referring to the issue of the warrants, said the efloct would la*, to stagger the whole industrial movement in support ol the seamen, lie believed the dispute was settling down to a long and protracted struggle, but the union was laying its plans accordingly.

STRIKE DISOWNED. LONDON. September R>. The Trade Union Conference lias rallied the unions at Melbourne and South Africa disowning the strike. A COM BOY EARL. XFAY YORK. September 8. Oliver Henry M'allop. for years a ,-owbov hand, hut now a ranch owner at Sheridan. Wyoming, succeeds to the title of Earl of Portsmouth. He has announced his acceptance.

OBITUARY. LONDON. September 8. t tint uarv. - I'lie Ear I ol Portsmouth

LAPSE OF MEMORY. LONDON. Kept. 8

The signalmen. giving evidence in connection with the train accident in England on Ith. September, said lie oiitinlv forgot the ballast train into tv 1 1 i(‘ 1 1 an express ran. He was busy taking a message on the telephone when lie heard I lie crash.

N.Z. DAIRY INS HR A NCR. 'LONDON. Sept. 3

The New Zealand Dairy Control Hoard has insured the whole of its ihtirv exports against all risks tor a. year to the extent, of one million sterling. from the first of September covering a period from the reception of the first milk and cream at the factov, unlit thirty days after the butter and cheese have arrived in London.

IRISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LONDON. Sept. !>

The Morning Rost's Dublin eorrespoiient states that at a meeting of the Irish Medical Profession it- was decided to accept President Cosgrave’s olfer to consult" ibcin in reference to the Free Stale Bill for establishing a separate Medical \ssoiiation lor Ireland