BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

4LVIRALIAN ANU N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION CANADIAN FRUIT COMBINE. VANCOUVER, Jan. 18. Failure to obtain more than four jurors from a panel of 376 oil Monday, resulted in the postponement of the trial at the Supreme Court for a week of tile Government’s charge alleging il combine in connection with fruit distribution in Western Canada against eleven individuals and forty-two firms. An additional thousand salesmen will he summoned. Pile costs are four dollars a day for each juror subpoenaed.

THE RUBBER MARKET. NEW YORK, Jan. 18. Crude rubber prices dropped- eight cents on Monday.

The traders look for lower levels considering the increase in the stocks in ljondon and New York. There is a complete absence of factory interest, which with the rubber investigation at Washington is a depressing factor. CANADIAN POLITICS. OTTAWA, January 80. The Conservatives to-day brought down the expected amendment to tho speech from tho throne in the Conic nions. The Conservative leader (Mr Meighun) in closing his speech in refJ creme to the Australian treaty, de- “ * dared that extra Australian eompetition meant the Canadian farmer was being asked to pay in order that pa pmmanufacturers could enjoy an advaiff tage in the Australian market. Tho amendment regretted that the siieech from, the throne gave no indication of the policy designed to enlarge the volume of employment in Canada “ and particularly to give to producers of farm products, coal and primary products the advantage they are, under the present world conditions, entitled to enjoy in the markets of the. world.”

JOINT STOCK PROFITS. LONDON, Jan. 19. The “Economist” computes that the profits of ]1490 British joint stock , empanies for throe months averaged - A 12 per cent., an increase of 50 per cent, over 1922. BRITISH TRADE. TENDON, Jan. 19. The “Daily Express” declares there is no excuse for pessimists here or abroad describing as “Finished” the nation whose trade has reached tho colossal figure of two billions sterling annually.