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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14937, 16 June 1919, Page 3

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Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) and N.Z. Cable A-*oc»aU" LONDON, June 10. British imports increased £9,749,767, exports £19,377,321, re-exports £8,095,Waihi shares are at 43s 9d to 46s 3d; P. and O. 475. The Ministry of Munitions announces that stocks of' copper total 47,992 tons, spelter 38.428 - .tons, aluminum 10,918 tons, lead 19,907 tons, nickel 3,552 tons, and antimony, 4,500 torn. LONDON, June 14. Tlie death is- announced iof Weedon Grossmith, the famous artist, actor, and author. ■;.• » The Edward Medal has been awarded to Michael Fogarty and Frank Duller for gallantry m rescuing Fred Joga from a working m the Mount Morgan mine on July 12, 1918, m the face of the imminent explosion of a blasting charge. LONDON, June 15. The British Food Ministry estimates its turnover for the year ended March/ 1919, at nine hundred millions sterling. The Admiralty hue ordered the immediate demobilisation i of seven thousand temporary naval officers. A Rome wireless reports that a gjeneral strike has broken out m Genoa. Car-, rara, and Spezia, against the high oost of living. •'■)'' The Lettish information '( bureau at Stockholm reports that . the Germans have captured Wenden. ' {Received June 16, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, June 15. , A total of 808 divorce petitions are set down at the current sessions, .662 being undefended. Madge Titheradge is among those suing for divorce. v Hobbs, the Australian professional swimmer, swam from Keyr to Putney ' m eighty minutes. ; Tlie King has issued ah appeal for support of the Victory Loan. He s_.ys that security and . prosperity depend upon a solid financial foundation. Unstinted support- is necessary to set peace on a sound basis. ■ : \ BRISBANE,. June 16. The 1919 sugar crop is' estimated at one hundred thousand tons short of *requiremenfo. , NEW YORK/ June 10. The New York . Times' * Washington correspondent states that the Federal Reserve Board has announced that the embargo on the export of gold from tho United States has been removed, save to enemy , countries and .Bolshevist Russia. . ,-,''' SYDNEY, June. 14. The minesweepera Geranium and Fallot have sailed for. New Zealand. ' ' - (Received June 16.- 11.55 a.m.) •-_•'" PERTH, June 16. t The Labor., Congress passed a resolution, demanding that the Government secure a substantial reduction m the cost of living, failing which unions will take simultaneous drastic action.