MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1925, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] NEW SEAMEN’S UNION. (Received this day at 12 noon). LONDON. December 31. Mr Havelock Wilson ridicules the report from Australia in collection with Messrs Walsh and Lydcl’s optimistic anticipations regarding the proposed British seamen’s union. He says:— “ Their claim that the union already consists of nearly four thousand members at Tilbury is absurd, because the residential seamen do not exceed lour hundred. Not one ol them has enrolled in the new Union. In any case.

the union is both numerically and financially impossible. because our union already covers the interests of one hundred thousand British seamen. firemen, cooks and stewards, with funds aggregating {.'300,000. Resides there is (MOO.OOO to their credit in the national health insurance fund. .So far from the overseas strike prejudicing Ibis union twenty joined in 1925. We contributed ,010.000 to the distressed dependants of overseas strikers while our appeal to Walsh for assistance remained nnaswered.” RHODES SCHOLARS. ■LONDON. Dec. 3d, A report of the Rhodes Trust for the aredemic year of 1921-25, states that during the year (p! Rhodes scholars tool; up scholar hi; x for the fit-t time. Due hundred and eighty-five were in residence. 9n being from the British Empire and 89 from the United States During the course oi the veal 5V scholars completed the term of their seholar-hi,, or went finally out of residence v. ithout completing it. and three

scholuis .suspended residence temporarily. Iho academic year 1925-20 starts ui* I 1 scholars in residence, two more .liming in January. There will he iiltoori e>:-scholar.-. Three cxsclailars died during the course of the year. lie- I iiistecs purchased a site from the Wadliam College '■.hereon they nil! civet a building to he known as Rhodes House to contain a ball for annua) dinners; an English-speaking librain and a resiileii:<• for the Oxford secretary. RUM-RUNNING BvRO.NET RANKBfTl'T.

LONDON. Dec. ,31. Sir Broderick Hartwell, nick-mimed the whisky running baronet, has been examined in bajikruptcy. His liabilities total a pH.utcr of a million. lie said, in response to Americans’ invitation. lie despatched seven shipments. Hie lasi whereof consisted of fifty-six thousand i as-. The vessels crew mutinied and the cargo was transferred to smaller vessels and prohibition officers seized thirty-six thousand cases. He had not received payment for a shipment valued at a (piarler of a million.