BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

.{Australian tfc N.Z. Cable Association.) BRITISH TRADE. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. Bonrd of Trade returns for September show the value of imports for the month decreased by £309,000 compared with a year ago. Exports increased by 9,707,000 but re-exports of colonial and foreign products decreased by £29,000. The principle decrease in imports was coal £7,730,000, while increases in imports were grain flour £1,922,000; non-dutinble food and drink £1,101,000; wood and timber, £2,673,000. Increases in exports included: Coal, £3,576,000; iron, steel and manufactures thereof £2,672,003.

A BAD START. BERLIN, Oct. 12. Meinkel, in a seaplane, with an engine of 800 horsepower and crew of three, departed for America, but came down at the western end of Kiel Canal.

MINERS’ DEMAND. LONDON, Oct. 12. G’loso cm Hills’ suggestion from i section of coal owners that there should be a reduction in miners’ percentages of the-.subsistence wage, owing to the year’s heavy losses, Lancashire and Cheshire Miners’ Federation arc demanding the cancellation of the present agreement. The matter is expected to be discussed at the national conference in November. Though the federation is impoverished some men are talking of another general stoppage.

IRISH CABINET. LONDON, Oct. 12. Mr Cosgrave announced his Cabinet as follows:

Ernest Blythe, Vice-President, l\linis ter of Finance, Post and Telegraphs. Desmond Fitzgerald, Defence. Professor M. O’Sullivan, Education. Patrick jVfcOilligan, Industry, Commerce, and External Affairs. Patrick Hogan, Agriculture. Fininian Lynch, Fisheries. General Mulcahey, Local Government, and Public Health. Jas. Fitzgerald Kenny, Justice.