LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 December 1933, Page 2

LATE MESSAGES

NEW YORK, December 18

It is understood that a well-known Californian wine concern has contracted for a supply of Australian wine for the purpose of blending with the domestic product. It iS’ believed the quota for Australian wines will probably be fixed in the near future by 'Washington, when probably a trade agreement will be framed. The health authorities in several cities have' analysed many whiskys for sale, revealing the worst kind of fraud is being perpetrated.- Raw alcohol, coloured, is selling at as high price as pure whisky blends. The authorities promise action under the pure food laws. The after-repeal’ era has apparently opened not too auspiciously as concerns the consumer, nor is the regulation keeping pace with the need for a system that will encourage temI perance and obviate the bootlegger. KLAGENFURT, December 18. Obituary: Field Marshall Oskar Von Potiarek, in whose motor car Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo in July, 1914. LONDON, December 18. Collins’ are publishing early in the new year, the Australian comedian, W. S. Percy’s, Book on Scotland, illustrated wtih his own paintings. LONDON December 18 The Commons passed the second reading of the Bill permanently prohibiting the importation of dye-stuffs intermediary products, enacted in 1921. LONDON, December 18. The foPowing New Zealanders pass ed as F.R.C’s: T. A. Green, A. H. Har vie and C. E. Lambert. AUCKLAND, December 15. Arrived; Marama and Mariposa from Sydney.

AUCKLAND, December 19. The Australian women’s tennis team for a tour of New Zealand, arrived by the Marama. It comprises Misses N. Lloyd (manager), D. Dingle, N. Hall, V. Volkenburg, and L. Bickerton. They will play at Whangarei on Thursday, Auckland on Saturday, spend Christmas at Rotorua, and then go to the South Island to compete in the New Zealand championships at. Christchurch. They will play a Test match at Wellington* on January 12 and 13, then appear at Masterton and Palmerston North. Miss Lloyd said tlifit the side was the strongest available with the exception of Joan Hartigan, the Australian champion. It was as strong in the singles and slightly stronger in the doubles than the teams which had previously visited the Dominion. Miss Lloyd also said that hard court tennis was fast increasing in popu-

larity, and it was now estimated there were ten hard' court players to every grass player. WELLINGTON, December 19. Complete agreement was reached yesterday in the Wellington district retail shop assistants’ dispute, and the Court will be asked to embody the terms of the agreement in an award. The terms of settlerirent will- be adopted also by employers and workers in Northern and Otago arid Southland industrial districts. / ■ < INVERCARGILL, December 19. At the Police Court, Eric Anthony Bullman, 22, was committed for seritence on charges of breaking and entering two .shops at Otautau, arid of stealing a motor-car from one shop, and obtaining money and cheques to the value of £46. , For breaking, entering and theft from dwelling houses, Thomas Edward Hardwick was committed for sentence.