PRICE OF CONDENSED MILK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3503, 15 June 1920, Page 5

PRICE OF CONDENSED MILK.

AN INCREASE IN VVELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON, JUNE 12.

Within the last few days the price of condensed milk in Wellington has risen to one shilling per tin in the large niajo.rity_ of the retail shops. The price generally ruling before the adVance was 10d per tin. A few retailers who formerly were selling for 9d per tin have a.d\'an.cCd the price to 11d. The increase of 2d per tin has coincided as far as Wellington is concerned with :1 sho,rtagc of fresh. milk, and the demand for condensed milk during recent: days has been particularly active. Some of the consumers have protested that they were being exploited. On April 1 last, the Board of Trade, which confrols the wholesale price of condensed milk, authorised an illcl'e:ise of the wholesale price from 385 to 403 per case. This price was slibject to the usual trmle discounts. The increase of 25 per case represented an advance of id per tin. The retail udvnnce of 2«l per tin seems to have been based on this wholesale n(l\':lnce of’ .I_,ll Per tin. The manu.t'ac:urers explain that the cost. of producing condensed milk has increased enormously since l!ll-<1, when :1 ‘standard brand of New Zealnnd milk was sold retail‘ at (id per tin. The price of tin plates has a.dvance<',l a.bont: 300 per cent. The milk has to be liought. in coinpel:ition. with the l)l1il‘(;lI‘ and cheese factories, and labour and fuel. are much more expensive, ‘ The price Of 11 tin of' Condensed milk in Sydney is now ,1/3,‘ the fl'lff(.‘r(‘ll('.(‘ being accounted for in part by the high price of sugar in Australia,

U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

DISSATISFACTION VVITH

NOMINEE.

Received 11.35 am. _« NEW YORK, June 14.

Leaiiers of the progressive forces in the Republican Party are dissatisfied with Mr Harding’s selection. They are inaugurating a third party for the purpose of holding a convention on 10th July to nominate their own. candidates. It is reported thirty States. are ready 110 Support this movement.

AN ASSASSINATION. PARIS, June 13. Albanian students assassinated Essad Pasha in the Due de Casticlione, holding him to be an enemy of Albania,"s aspirations.

ESSAD PASHA SHOT. PARIS, June 14. Essad Pasha was entering a motor from the Hotel Continental when Rustem, who was hiding behind 9. pi]lar, shot hini twice with a revolver. The second bullet penetrated his heart and Essad Pasa dropped dead. crowd half lynched. Rustem said he crowd half lynched. Rustem said eh wished to avenge Albania’s wrongs, and that Essad had been plotting against the newly-formed Republican Gover-nment_ Essad came to Paris as the head of the Albanian delegation, and had stayed here since, because Italy refused to permit him to return. A WARNING DISREGARDED. FOUR (.‘()NSPIR_ATORS HANGED. Received 9.15. PARIS, June 14. It. tr:-mspires that Issad Pasha received warning :1 week ago, but did not take any precautionary measures. Rustem apparcnfly carried out the decision of the secret society. Rustem :~.::1id: “I acted on behalf of the A]hanian cause. "’

CONS'_I.‘AN'I‘INOPLE, June 14.

Four conspil'ato.rs were court martial'l'ed for plotting against the Grand Vizier, and banged in the public S(]11:11'C. They spent their last few moments in denouncing the Turkish Government, and pl'ocla.iming their devotion to the Committee‘ of the Union of I’:-ogx-<?s..<. The bodies renmined un-~ til the British :luthol~ities orderedthoir renlovnl. ’ ’l‘h"e Grand Vi’/.i01" has sailed for P2ll-i's.

THE GRAND VIZIER’S MISSION.

Received 11.35 am

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 15‘

The Grand Vizier left for Paris to present Tux-key’s reply to the Peace Treaty and endeavour to Yfbtain an oral -hearing zys regards terms. It is understood the reply protests against the clauses dealing with Thrace and. Smyrna, the attack on the suzerainty by the internationalisation of the Bosphorous and Dardanelles, and the clauses granting rights of capitulation te States which they enjoyed before the war.

REVOLT IN ALBANIA. ITALIANS EVACUATE ADRITIC PO'RTS. ‘ _ ROME, June 14. A fight for Volana raged furiously for four hours beginning at I‘lTid—night. Fifteen tllol_lsa.n.d Albanian insurgents placed mines on all the roads, they destroyed the bridges and planr.(..d captured Italian guns on heights overlooking the town. »Tllese shelled the naval base (hiring the main arhu-.l§', the ltalian'wal-ships replying. The defenders‘ plight was almost hopeless at four o’c-lock owing to a. 1.1-eacliei-()=.l:—* Mussulman attack in their rear, ‘but the Alpini made :1 desperalee (iharge, slayi.ng I.WO- hundred and capthzing several thousand and a IllJm'o‘3l' 'nf guns. Then they rounded up all the Mllss,lllmallsA whom they deported to "[3,-indi_qj_ The Italian losses are severe. The first lisfi contains the names of tliiri-y-seven oflicers missing,

There are disquieting rumours concerning the fate of Scutar‘ ‘rn-rison.

An ;Infi—ltah'an rising in Amai‘lia is new general. The Italian garrison have been forced to (mil, several Adriatic sea ports. The evacuutionl of 'I)1n-azzo and SC1l1;:L1'i is immin-én.+.. The gar;-isons at. Santi Quar'.ull.a. (eight; miles non-tll—ea.'s'f. of Corfu), Dulcigne on the Montenegm-in coast, 12 miles south of Antivari) and Ant’?var]. luwe been forced to embark. A small garrison at Tepelemi. 3eve-11ty-five miles southeast of D‘u:':l'-J’/.0, though ,qul'l'nulld€d for many days is still holding out receiving rations from an 2i'eropla.ne. Durazzo cont.inue.s'DlUCkily to re sist, but everything is ready for evacuation. It. appears that 9, national uprising is now in progress throughout Albania.

Strikes of seamen and raihvaymen are occun'in_9; in many Italain pqrts

and towns, the object being to per-

vent the despatch of troops and material.

PUNISHING’ THE ARABS.

Received 8.50 a.mA

LONDON, June 14‘

Advices from Bagdad state the Arabs suffered heavy losses in attacking convoys between Sergat and Mosul. We had practically no losses. The cavalry encountered three hundred raiders at Taiuyah, killing thirty—five; Armoured cars killed others. The column reached Telafar, and is carrying out punitive operations.