MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Proas Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. BUDAPEST, August 19. Many tradesmen are demanding wheat instead of depreciated currency in payment for goods. A suit of clothes costs 3501 bof wheat.—A. and N.Z, Cable. ROME, August 19. Many thousands of dead fish vro floating in Lake Lubrino, near Naples, spoiling lhs lake’s valuable fisheries. It is believed that poisonous gases escaping through the volcanic bed aro causing tho destruction.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CHRISTIANIA, August 19. M. Erikarentz has been appointed Norwegian Consul-General at Melbourne. —A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, August 18. The British Association for the Advancement of Science maintains ns ban against German scientists attending the forthcoming conference at Hull. Tho South Hackney election resulted as follows: —Captain Erskino Bolst (Coalitionist) 9,1x8, Mr Holford Knight (Labor) 9,046. Rejected ballot papers numbered 104, of which ninety were intended for Knight. They bois words of good luck or references to Socialism.

A feature of London life is the popularity of whist drives. To-night 16,000 players will compete at Olympia and Kensington in a drive which was organised by the ‘ Daily Sketch ’ for 200 prizes, tho winner receiving £SOO. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

PARIS, August 19.

The declining birth rate is attracting serious attention. Tho rate of births over 100 families is now 166, compared with 248 in 1915 and 533 in 1865/ ‘L’Oeuvre’ declares that if this rate of decline continues France will be depopulated in half a con tray.—A, and N.Z, Cable.