EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1922, Page 8

EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

SHIPMENTS TO MANCHESTER. MARKET FOR NEW ZEALAND, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, April 1. A new company has been formed, callthe the Manchester Consignments, Limited, with a capital of £50,000, to support the movement for direct shipments from Australasia to Manchester. Regular steamship services have been arranged from Manchester to Australia and New Zealand. A statement is made that Mr. Massey is acquainted with the proposal and intends to support it when the time is opportune by not sending goods through London or Hull. It is estimated that cargo can be landed at Manchester £2 per ton cheaper on the average. s GENERAL CABLES. GERMAN PAPERS CLOSE DOWN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 1, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, March 31. Owing to financial difficulties, 148 daily newspapers in Germany have closed down. FIRE IN THE BAHAMAS. New York, March 31. A message from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, reports that fire has destroyed a large part of the city. The firemen dynamited some buildings and prevented complete destruction of the town. SHANTUNG’S TRANSFER. New York, March 31. A telegram from Peking reports that Japan and China have successfully concluded negotiations regarding the transfer of Shantung. A GERMAN INDEMNITY. The Hague, March 30. Germany has promised to pay Holland an indemnity for the sinking of the Tubantia on March 11, 1916. Hitherto Germany has always accused Britain of sinking the Tubantia. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. London, March 31. The financial committee of the League of Nations has appointed an expert committee to examine the question of double taxation, aiming to secure nn international understanding for the abolition of double taxation by a convention of all the nations of the world. KING GEORGE’S ECONOMY. Londqp, March 30. As a measure of economy, the King has consented to paying < the Royal yacht Alexandra. THE TREATY RATIFICATIONS. Washington, March 31. The State Department has sent a Note to the eight Powers who were at the Washington Conference, advising them that the United States was ready to exchange the treaty ratifications.— THE NEAR EAST. Athens, March 30. M. Gounaris declares that the Government will not reply to the Allies’ proposal until Kemal sends an answer regarding the proposed armistice. RUSSIAN MONARCHISTS ARRESTED. Berlin, March 31. Two Tsarist officers, Schabelskj and Ta'bovitski, have been arrested in connection with the shooting of M. Miliukoff, leader of the Russian Cadet Partv The former confessed that he went to the Philharmonic Hall for the purpose of killing Miliukoff, \vhom he regarded as responsible for Russia’s misfortunes He made a theatrical harangue to the police offie’ tls justifying his deed. It appears that amid the confusion following the assassination the audience overpowered the assassins as they stood on the platform holding smoking revolvers. The police believed the plo* was hatched by extremists attending the Monarchist Congress in Berlin. Other arrests are likely. SCANDALS IN JAPAN. Tokio, March 30. Tsuruo Hamagudhi, a retired lieutenant of the Japanase navy, was sentenced to two years’ penal servitude for attempting to sell secret naval plans to the former American naval attache in Tokio, Captain Watson. Ten persons, including two members of the Diet, six municipal officers, and two directors of the Tokio Water Company, were sentenced to imprisonment varying from two months to two years in connection with recent scandals in the management of public utilities. Nineteen others were fined. SOUTH-WEST AFRICAN RAILWAYS. Capetown, ’March 30. The Government, has introduced a Bill transferring all railways and harbors in the mandated and South-West territory to the Union Government. The effect of the measure is that linos .working at the time of the occupation are taken over by the Union railway administration free of cost and their v&ie added as non-interest bearing capital, a .id they become part of the Union railway system. . CANADIAN WHEAT. Washington. March 30. ’ he Senate Finance Committee de<>n a permanent wheat, tariff of •ents per bushel. This is a comremise between the Payne, Aldrich and emergency tariffs. The new rate is designed to prevent an influx of Canadian wheat, such as occurred when v 1 e ’'•nergenev law "'■a- 8 being framed. The emergency law duty was 35 cents.