GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 27 August 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

NEW. ZEALAND CARGO STEAMER j MISSING. j HEAVY INSURANCE RATE CHARGED j Received 26, S.Z p.m. London, August 25 evening). | Silver, 24 7 Bd. | Tlie Bank of England received a fur ther £474.000 in gold to-day. Thirty guineas per cent, was paid to re-insure the Kaipara, which left Monte Video o« August Ist and has not been heard of since. THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME. TRADE REGULATIONS. •EVELOPING CHEMICAL INDUSTRY. Received 20, 5..1 p.m. London, August 2<i. "When tlie House of Commons resumed Vie Chamber was crowded. Mr Asquith said the Government did not propose to resume the right to capture. the enemy's merchandise in neutral Yeßeels. Mr Lloyd Goerge introduced a Bill jiving power to call in new banknotes, ftnd substitute others less easily forge•We; also empowering the Treasury to iiaue certificates instead of notes to bankers, enabling the latter to assist traders. Bills were introduced restricting the Mle and consumption of alcohol during the war, also permitting Britishers to make any German patent. The Government is considering the appointment of a Committee to develop the chemical industry, hitherto largew in the hands of Germany. A conference of National Labor Com■littccs decided on an immediate effort to terminate all existing trade disputes, •nd to ask the Government to use iti influence with employers to stop overtime in order to minimise unemployment. They will ask the Government to subsidise trade unions, to enable tliem to continue their sick and .-nperamutation Vnefits. BRITISHERS STRANDED IN BERLIN. GERMAN GOVERNMENT ASSIST ANCE. Received 2'i. §.5 p.m. London. 2'i. In the House of Common-. Mr F. D. Acland. Uri.l. r-Se.r. t.ny Foreign in reply to a qu-'-tion said the United States Amta-saAtr in London had sent £2OOO to t.ie .un'w.ggdors in Berlin and Vienna for t:v re lief of Britishers: al-o that Germani had allocated £IO,OOO for the teller .>: foreigners. FLEECING THE PUBLIC. A -'BLACK LIST" BEING KEPT. Times and Svdney Sun Servicei. Received 26. p.m. London, August 2'>. Manr firms in the city ar keeping "black" list" of traders who arc enfun iag war prices unnecessarily. This lis fcfor use when the war is over.

The i nitod Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England and the Colonies is asking members to sanction a preliminary donatio® of £4OOU to the Prince »f Wales' Fund. BRITiSiI BOYCOTT OF CER\KN COODS. STARTLING TRADE DISCOVERIES. BIG GERMAN BUSINESSES JN ENGLAND. Times and SvJncy San Special Service,-:, Received 26, 5.5 pjn. London, August i'ii. Investiptions have revealed that a multiplicity of German-owned companies with British sounding names are operating in Great Britain. German goods ere ix'ing trouglit to Eigland through Copenhagen, while German linns arc sending British travellers round ior orders. The public are ro fusing all German-made articles. CONCESSIONS TO ALIEN WOMEN. London, August 25 (evening). The Government has decided to permit the wives and families of German ami Austrian reservists who have gone tr the war to return to their respective countries.