BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18510, 22 March 1922, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Piees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 20. The Co-operative Wholesale Society’s actual trading loss for the half-year to December was £445,491. Interest charges and depreciation bring the total loss to £1,416,615, which is debited to the reserve fund, reducing it to £64,268. —A. and N.Z. Cable. A bottle, containing a message from the Austro-Hungarian expedition of 1874, was picked up at Nova Zembla and forwarded to Vienna. The letter is in excellent preservation, and has been identified by the sole survivor. It recounts how the ship was jammed in the ice pack on Franz Josef Land, and the crew were compelled to abandon the ship.—Times. (Received March 21, at 5.5 p.m.) The King is slightly indisposed, and cancelled a dinner engagement at the last moment. —A. and N.Z Cable. PARIS, March 20. French wine-growers are preparing to sjnd a ship around the world laden with every kind of wine, from which free samples will be distributed. It is proposed to visit the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. The ship will remain outside territorial limits, and free tug tickets will be provided for those who desire to visit the vessel.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BERLIN, March 20. (Received March 21, at 5.5 p.m.) Professor Lederes, specialist in internal diseases, has been summoned to Moscow to attend M. Lenin, who has been seriously ill for some time.—A. and N.Z. Cable.