MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] NO CONFIDENCE IN SOVIET. LONDON, Ala roll 10. The "Times” Brussels correspondent says the Chamber expressed the conviction that there could he no stability in the' resumption of commercial relations with Russia while the Soviet did not observe the basic elements of good faith, while at the same time she demanded long term credits in respect to a comparatively negligible quantity of exportable products. LECTURE ON N Z. LONDON, .March 10. Sir .James Allen intends to lecture the delegates at Geneva on New Zeafiind. He took lantern slides from London. N.Z. SHEEP FOR SCOTLAND. LONDON. .March 10. The Ministry of Agriculture has issue'! a license permitting James Piper, farmer of Burnt, island. Kilishire, who bought New Zealand Corriedalo sheep on exhibition at Wembley, to import thirty head from New Zealand. He believes tho breed highly suitable for Scottish sind purposes. BRITISH ECONOMY BILL. LONDON. Alarcli 10. The eagerly awaited Economy Bill was introduced by flic Hon Win.-,ton Churchill (Chancellor of ti to Exchequer) in the House of Commons. At present it does not indicate the extent of the savings anticipated, lnit a comprehensive preamble mentions provisions for reducing the charges on the public funds, and increasing the funds to meet such charges by an amendment of the (law relating to health and unemployment insurance, the registration of electors, education, bankruptcy, companies and winding up schemes, certain other fees and postmarks. The Bill was read a first time. NON-EXISTENCE OF AN ISLAND. CAPETOWN, Alarcli 10. Ibe German survey ship .Meteor, arrived after eleven week’s exploration hi the .Southern Atlantic. Captain Spies reports that Thompson Island, which is marked on the British maps as eighty miles north-east of Bouvet Island, (’oujil not l»e found. .Many lays were spent in the neighbourhood. The German scientists are satisfied i bat they have proved the disappearance or non-existence of the island.