MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1921, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. EXCHANGE. LONDON, January 3. Exchanges—Pajris 60.50 francs; Stockholm 17.66 kroner, Christiana 23.60 kroner; Calcutta 18| pence; Yrokohama 32| yen; Montreal 414 cents; New York 354 cents. COMMERCIAL. LONDON, January 3. Bradford wool market has a mote confident tone, but business is small. The tallow stocks are 7331 casks. Imports during December 2163, deliveries 3873. THE WOOL SCHEME.

LONDON, Jan 3

Negotiations between the Imperial aiul Australian Governments continue regarding the wool realization scheme, in the friendliest spirit, and it is expected an agreomnt will be reached this week.

With a view to reopening direct shipping to Queensland via Torres Strait, interrupted by the war, the British India Company will despatch (he A\ nipara as a trial vessel on the 29th.

THEFT OF PEARLS

'BERNE, Jan 3

Count Es ted hazy, informed the police that he had been robbed of pearls costing 180 million crowns. 'Hie police arrested a young Swiss of good family and recovered the jewels at his house. Esterhazy was delighted, hut the Berne police telegraphed the Hungarian Government who replied that Esterhazy had smuggled the jewels out of Hungary. Thu . Swiss police are now holding the jewels. REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS. i LONDON, Jan. 3. | The Tokio correspondent of the j "Daily Express,” states that the JapI a nose newspapers are giving prominence to the discussion of a naval holiday in England and America, as they are con- ! vinced that if America forces the pace 1 Japan must follow at any cost. They declare that Japan is willing to cooperate in the limitation of shipbuilding.

The ‘‘Asalii Shimbun” expresses anxiety ns to what may happen if Great Britain does not renew the Alliance, hut says a reduction of armaments is a better guarantee than alliances.

I* R ESE XT 1) A Y ST REN GTH

BERLIN, January 2.

It is officially stated that, the army is now a hundred thousand, inol tiding four hundred officers. Fifty thousand (runs have boon destroyed, and lire million rifles, sixty thousand machine-guns and twenty thousand aeroplanes and motors have been surrendered or destroyed. All the armament factories aro now engaged in industrial work.

TRANSPORT WORKERS.

ONE 810 ONION APPROVED

LONDON, January 2

A meeting at East London, attended by several thousand transport workers throughout the country, unanimously confirmed the agreement combining into one big union the various unions into which the transport workers hitherto have been divided. The new organisation will have an immediate membership of half a million.