GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

LIP-STICK COST.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) BERLIN, March 3. Germany imported 11,200 , hundredweight of lipstick in 1929. The cost ot tn is grease fo-r colouring the lips of German women amounted to more than £350,000. JAPAN’S LABOUR TROUBLE. TOKYO, March 3. Unemployment figures, which, according to the last Government estimates are three hundred thousand, now exceed eight hundred thousand and are rapidly increasing, due to busiiK‘-:s depression. Factories are shutting down whilst the approaching completion of the reconstruction of 'Tokyo, which will be celebrated on the 24th March, will throw huge numbers of labourers workless. Labour organisations are drafting, remedial plans and the Government is preparing a scheme of unemployment insurance. WRITER’S DEATH. LONDON, March 3. Obituary—D. H. Lawrence, the novelist. LONDON. March 3. Obituary—The Earl of Kinmore. TO FIGHT AGAIN. VANCOUVER, March 3. A message from,. Cleveland (Ohio) states Dempsey announced definitely o-day he would fight again in event of Sehmeling defeating Sharkey and provided Dempsey reached his light conditions. SYDNEY LOAN. NEW YORK, March 4. It is learned from an excellent source- that the Sydney loan contract has been completed and is now being chocked. The bonds bear five and a half per cent interest. Coup-sms wore issued at a price understood to he between eighty-five arid eighty-seven sterling.

WHEAT CARGOES. LONDON, March 4. Wheat cargoes demand quiet quotations in view of the uncertainty of the American Farm Board’s action. U declined threepence to fivcpeiue. Parcels arc in poor demand at similar declines. Futures, London. March 86s 7d, May 37 s. Liverpool, .March 7s Bd, May Bs, July 8s 2i|d net cash.