MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1926, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

|Australia & N..Z. Cable Association.j CATTLE DISEASE. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 27. Four children of a small landholder in East Jutland have been certified to be suffering from foot and mouth disease. The medical authorities are puzzled over the cases, as the parents do not keep cows. Therefore it is assumed that the children have contracted the disease through drinking milk from an affected cow. LONDON, Sept. 27. Experts here, commenting on the Danish foot and mouth disease cases, declare that human beings occasionally hut extremely rarely, contract this disease. Foot and mouth disease is now present- in some herds of cows in and around London. PRINCE OF WALES. LONDON, Sept, 27. In refusing the Auctioneers’ Society’s invitation to its anniversary dinner, the Prince of AA'ales pointed out that, in recent years, he found it increasingly difficult to accept even a small proportion of the invitations to him for public dinners. To many dinners of a national or imperial character, or those organised by bodies with which he was directly associated, he felt he must go, hut he was reluctantly forced to refuse the invitations of any other character. THE DIAMOND ROBBERY. LONDON, Sept, 28. Among the losses in connection with the mail bag robbery, so far notified, to the underwriters at Lloyds, the

most important is a diamond necklace valued at three thousand sterling. It is stated in other quarters that one merchant lost ten thousand pounds’ worth of diamonds. N.S.AY. LOAN. LONDON, Sept, 27. The “Financial Times” says: “The underwriters of the New South Wales Loan expect to l>e left with a considerable portion of the issue on their hands.”