MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(J.iv Tc-lcy;i';ii»!i Por Press Association. A FA TA L FALL. ASHIU.'KTON, Aui;. 13. •Idliii O’Shea. of Ashburton Forks, slipped when (Tossing n water channel in I’m nett Street .yesterday afternoon, striking his head against the bumper of a car standing alongside, lie was admitted to the hospital in an unconscious condition and died last evening. O'Shea, who was eighty years of age. was one of the oldest residents of the Forks' district. He leaves a widow, invalided for many years, one son and two daughters.

BRITISH TRADE RFTFRXS. LOXDOX. Aug. 12.

Til.. I’,mini ul Trade returns for Ju!y disclose ;i decrease of t(i,920.00(1 in tin 1 value of imports, compared with the, previous July, and tI. I l.'I.OOl) in ox-! ports, lie-exports of foreign and col-; onial products increased by k"2.'’:i.OOO. I The principal decreases were in ini- j ports, coal L I .205.000, raw cotton 152.079.000; oilseeds lT.fl2o.000: and in; exports, cotton varus manufactures L"2,.‘!9,'>.000. - !

Tin; child increase-, were: In imports, wood and timber C2.J1J.000: and in exports, coal 1555.592.01 It) : iron and steel and manufactures thereof <5 I .5;T2.000.

rising in Bolivia. I,A PAZ (Bolivia), Aug. 12. One hundred Indians are reported killed and many wounded by the Bolivian troops .suppressing a rising in the Potosi Department involvin': 50,000 Indians, who seized larins and warehouse,s and indulged in looting and burning. The origin of the trouble ts said to lie Communistic.

THE MA.MARI’S CONDITION. BUENOS AYRFS. Aug. 12

The surveyors in a preliminary report state the Mamari's lower plates on the starboard and port sides are crumpled. Alf the holds are dry. It. is probable dry docking will be unnecessary, as temporary repairs can lie completed in ten days.

STRIKF IX TURKEY

CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 12

The railwayman at Adana have struck, claiming an increase in wages. Hundreds lying down on the tracks prevented tin. trains running. The police bred blank cartridges, and arrested a number of leaders, and tranquility was restored, but trains are not yet running.

SHiPPIXG. NEWCASTLE, Aug. Id. Arrived—Kaikuiai from Dunedin. Sailed- Waiknwa for Lyttelton. SI’GA It .MILLS STB IK F.. BIHSBAXF..' Aug. Id. The strike at the South Johnstone sugar mill continues. Some eighty tons of sugar were removed from the mill to Townsville by the railwaymeii. but on arrival at the wharf labourers there refused to handle it. and it will have to he taken to Brisbane by rail. REINSTATED PERTH. Aug. Id. Cousin hies St. Jack and Regan, who were recently acquitted on a charge of murder of the natives in the NorthWest. have boon reinstated in the police force, and will receive wages for the lime they were suspended. LONDON'. Aug. 12. All brands of petrol were reduced wholesale and retail hv one |>emiy cor gallon and are now Is I ]d.