LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17792, 14 October 1921, Page 8

LATE CABLES

LONDON, October 15. Wheat prices are firm, but the demand is very quiet. Australian cargo fiiitilalions : Arrived, 575; Dceember-January £6s; steamer parcels, DecemberJamiary, new crop, 555. Spot trade is slow. Australian, ex store, 6Cs; ex tm.Vv. 625. Flour is quiet Australian, ex store, 645. Oats and bean,-: are quiet, and peas are slow and occasionally easier. Sugar, granulated, fils Gd. Dunish butter is rather firmer at about- 2345. Government prices ,nc unchanged. Tho free Australian is not yet discharged. Cheese is slow. New Zealand white, 96s to 102 s; colored,' 86s to 82s; Australian white, about 90s; colored, 60s; At auction 5.281 crates of badly-heated New Zca’aml cheese, from Kanpckonm realised from 10s to 56s per cwt. Tire estimated loss thereon is fully £40,000. At the mixed wool sale there was good French and home competition. Merinos were firm at full late rates. Crossbreds showed a hardening tendency. The market wag fairly active for spot bus but there was little disposition to operate in futures. Sixty-four’s quality is quoted at 43d, sixties at 42d, fifty-eights at 34d, and forty-sixes at 142 d.—A. and NZ. Cable. Vi- omit Kano, a, Japanese industrialist, speaking afc the Conference on Economic Recovery. said that Japan was accused of -feeing the most militaristic country in the world, but, the failure of Prussiamsm had taught Japan a lesson. She was finding the burden of armaments intoleijiK]» It was economic ambition that had compelled tho United States to summon the Washington- Conference. There was a -great conflict between American and Japanese interests in Mongolia. . , , The biggest unemployed demonstration ever seen in London paraded the prnicipal streets. A deputation of six visited the Prime Minister’s residence. The parade was orderly, with the, exception of a slight scrap with tho police, when t!:i> vanguard essayed In break the cordon into Trafalgar Squaio. which is forbidden ground,—A. and N.Z. Cable. Repubih an police, duviii.; up in motor cars, seized a number oi youths at Dm menu dra (County Meath), and drove away. It is reported, ■lhat t!K’vo v/iH bo sensational revolutions when the arrested youtirs nio tried in the Republican Court which is now sitting in Dublin.—A. and CaWc> BERLIN, October 13. Hie widow of Prince Joachim sued Prince Eitol Friodrick for the custody of l-.er son, whom. E;tel is keeping in const*queue© of a. d». -e the ex-Kaiser. The court decided that tho ex-Kaisors decree is invalid, and ordered tho child to be delivered to its mother.—A. and N.Z. Cable.