GREAT DIAMOND FOUND.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 251, 22 October 1919, Page 7

GREAT DIAMOND FOUND.

STONE WORTH £100,000. (Received 5.33 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. The "Daily News'' states that it is reported that a flawless blue white dia- " mond of 1.500 carats, valued at £100,000, * has been discovered in the Premier mine j* on the Rand.—(United Service.) "| BUNKERS ON FIRE. t j BERWICK CASTLE BEACHED. n '" CAPETOWN, October 21. t The I'nion Castle liner Berwick Castle (f)S9I gross tons) reached Mombassa on Wednesday with her coal bunkers on fire. The vessel was beached. The fore part of the steamer is completely burned out, and, as the fire spread aft, operations have been abandoned for the time tteing. The passengers were landed at Mombassa. No casualties occurred. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) * I.W.W AND THE STRIKE. ;o AID ADMITTED. " NEW YORK, October 20. Ie 1P The New York "Times" states that the rs attorney for the I.VT.W. organisational ,f Pittsburg, giving evidence before the Labour Committee of the Senate, ad j n milted that the I.W.W. and Bolshevilt ; i, organisations in the United States wort [, s backing the steclworker:.' strike. — (A ;lt and N.Z. Cable.) »• LOAN FROM ARGENTINE. '""• I Received 11. i~> a.m.) L> " BUENOS AYRES, October 21. President Irogoyen has summoned o special session of the Argentine Congress to consider a loan to the the National Budget.—(A. and N.Z.) N.S.W. WHEAT AREA. SYDNEY, this day. on The Government Statistician estimated ci- the area under wheat at 2,331,100 acres. ,d- a decrease of 235,680 acres compared ) with the last season.—(A. and -v_J,