MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] SHIPPING COY'S. PROFITS. SUVA. April 11. The Ruins Philip South Sea Company heh! its annual meeting at the registered office at Suva to-day. The halauce sheet showed a surplus, including a halance brought forward Irom Hie previous year o! U(is.ssii. Out ot this it was decided to pay a dividend of Is Id per share, to increase the reserve found by UO.OO'I. and to caiiy forward C5.5K!.

communist manifesto. MOSCOW, April 15. The Communist International has issued a manifesto declaring ( hiatigkuijjhck a traitor and ally of the Imperialists. The manifesto declares capitalist forces are unifying against the revolution and the Soviet. Ihe newspaper ‘‘l’mvda describes a Chiangkai.shek as the centre ol a counter revolution adding he stands on the same plane as Ohangisoliil. adding the coup has drawn a deep furrow in the whole history of China's lihorative struggle. Communists accent the challenge. GOOD FRIDAY ORDER. ROME, April 15. Mussolini has ordered the suspension ol all moving picture theatres and cafes employing music, so as to make Rome conform to the spirit of Good • Friday. The Churches were tilled, in- l dieating the extent of the religious re- . viral. Practically all members of nobility participated in a procession. | carrying a piece of the true Church llolv Cross. I

DESTROYERS FOR CHINA. j MANTUA, April 15. |

Pour more destroyers in port here have been ordered to proceed to Sluing- j hai with all possible speed. The | Simpson, and McCormac left inline- I diately on receipt of an order from I Admiral Williams, while the Black Hawk and MeLcisli leave within two days, as soon as necessary repairs are completed. ! RAIN IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, April ill. , | Continuous heavy rain spoiled the j holiday, and the pleasure resorts were deserted. The Royal Show, which gen- j orally experiences a record crowd wan | only moderately attended. Rain was i still falling at a late hour with everv j appearance of con timing and the outlook for the races is gloomy. RANK RATE. SYDNEY. April Id. The Australian hanks are advised the rates of exchange in Loudon after the 19th will he altered as follows: lltiying telegraph transfer 2s (id per cent premium ; on demand 10s per cent ( discount: for sixty days. Alls per cent { discount; for thirty days. 29s per cent j discount ; for ninety days. 50s per cent ' discount ; for 120 days, oils per cent discount; for selling telegraphic leans-; for, 10s per cent, premium; on demand i Is (id per cent premium ; for thirty . days, 5s per cent discount ; for sixty days. 12s (id per cent discount. j LA HOUR LEADER VISITS AMERICA NEW YORK. April 15. j Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter Isabel arrived in the Aouaitaiiia. for an eleven davs' personal visit to the United States. Mayor Walker, of New York, and other notables met the steamer at the quarantine station and escorted the liner to the pier. My .MacDonald will first make an automobile tour of New England and then return to New York, alter which he will { proceed to Washington for a few dats ( and will call upon Mr Cnolidge. Th ■ former British Premier will make two speeches in the United States, the first ; ... . l on April 2ith, living the thirtieth anniversary, of the celebration of New York Labour naper “ Forward,” and the second on April 2dth at the annual dinner of the Foreign Policy Assoeiaton at Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The .topic will ho foreign relations. Mr MacDonald returns to England on (lie 2 , ’th. This is his third visit to America. CHINA'S REPLY TO NOTES. SHANGHAI. April 15. The Nationalist Government replied to llio identical notes, of United States, Britain. Japan. France, and Italy, protesting against the Nanking riots, by failing to agree to any of thei powers’ demands. The reply proposes the appointment of an international commission to revise unequal treaties and investgate the Nanking affair. Chen despatched live different, hut similar miles to representatives of the powers in Hankow, wherein lie refused to admit responsibility of Nationalists for attacks on foreign citizens and consulates in Nanking. Further, he called attent.oii in the reples to Britain and the United States to the bombardment of ■* defenceless Nanking.” and also in replies to Britain and Fiance ; he refers to the bombardment of “defenceless Shameeii.” liis reply to I Japan is more conciliatory. ;

DR A [’(HITS TOURNEY. WELLINGTON. April 10. The draughts tourney opened with eighteen competitors, including Boreliam (Otago), Gardiner (Nelson) and Drown (Christcliurch'l, the present champion. Each compel itor has tliiriyfotir games to play and is supposed to get through four per day. hut some of them were very protracted and were not finished yesterday. The ox-cham-pions have till been successful so far. DR A I'GHTS ASSOCIATION. WKL 1,1 NGTON. April 1(1. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Draughts Association, there was no report or balance sheet. The headquarters at Dunedin reported there were no funds and it was not usual to issue a report. It was also found there were no rules and no agenda paper so the meeting was at a loss to know what it could do, and ultimately merely elected some members as an executive and others as a consultative committee. Hamilton and Invercargill were applicants for the next tourney but nothing was settled. A motion was passed demanding a report and balance sheet in the future and also book rules.

WOMEN LABOUR. NAIM Ult. April 10. The first national conference of women members of the Labour Party opened at Napier yesterday, Mrs Snow, of Wellington, presiding. Airs Stewart. Wellington, delivered a long interesting paper on co-operative trading through which she said the needs of the family could be supplied under democratic control by the people themselves instead of by a system of capitalists. A resolution was passed calling for amendments to the Child Welfare Act which was said to place too much power in the hands of those in charge of its administration.