BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1920, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) UN S ATT SFAGTORY MEAT. (Received this day at 9.50 a..m) LONDON, August 11. —Tho Now

Zealand meat which is being discharged at Liverpool is in an unsatisfactory condition. RUGBY. CAPETOWN, August 10. —It is announced that there is every probability of the Rugby Union accepting tin 1 invitation sent by the New Zealand Rugby Union to semi a team to

New Zealand next year. A GREAT FLIGHT; SYDNEY, This Day.—After repairing a damaged wing of their machine?, Parer and Mclntosh landed at Avon Downs. They are proceeding to Lioncurry immodial ely. CANBERRA AS THE CAPITAL. MELBOURNE, This Day.—A number of Senators from States oTuor than Now South Wales, at a meeting op; osed Die expenditure on Canberra. A deputation is waiting on -Mr. Hughes on the matter. POTATO EMBARGO. SYDNEY, This New Zealand Potato Delegations arrived, and

have already got busy interviewing the Government heads and other interested. When they have concluded th? negotiations at Sydney the deputation proceeds to Melbourne. GO HA CHOPS. NEW .YORK, August 9.—A three milieu bushel corn crop for the Mnr l time in the history of the United States is estimated by tin* Department of Agriculture. August is the critical month for the great corn belt in pile middle States but there has been an improvement in all Stales except Illinois. , Spring wheat was adversely affecuidt by July rust and production was reduced by twentynine million to a total of 262 million. The preliminary estimate of winter wheat is increased by fifteen million making the total’of the winter and spring crop 795,000,000. KING AA D EM PIRE. SYDNEY, Tii is day.—The King and Empire Alliance movement was formally launched, the constitution adopted and a strong Executive appointed. The avowed objects are to discountenance disloyalty, keep Australia and the national life free from the introduction of pernicious foreign doctrines calculated to impair the national spirit and to interefer with its duty to the Empire. A 44-HOUR WEEK. SYDNEY, This Day.—The Graziers Association maintains a determined attitude against accepting the shearers demand for a forty-four hour week. The claim that twenty-thyee sheds have already started on a 48-hour basis but shearers deny that any members of the union started on the graziers terms. The Sydney branch of the Boilermakers Union, resolved not to c ive work, to any men educated at tech nical colleges as boilermakers, under the repatriated soldiers scheme. Other Unions are limiting the number of such vocationally trained men. The returned men’s associations are strongly protesting.