BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15079, 29 November 1919, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN

?Elec! Tel. Copyright-United Press Assn * .Australian and N.Z Panic Association ( .-, ; LONDON, Nov. 27. { ■\ A' telegram frorii Michigan -states that an, enormous ; meteor fell into Lake Michigan. • Columns: of water ahd flames k hundred feeti high shot up into the air. ' '%f Nov, : 29, 9.5 a.m.) ;r -piy ..-:;< "?no LONDON,' Nov- &V ; V "A'^'White Paper, estimates' the worhTs fWiit yield fm;. 1919, ajV 99.3. per.. cent, hi t five years average ' pre-war yield;; sugar" 96.3' per cent. ; wool 91.8 compared with 1913.. The coal output of' America, Britain, FYance,'" Belgium^ the Netherlands, and Germany for the- first lialfiyear of 1919.. was # 80.6, compared Vvitii' 1913. A comparison of : expansion' of ..the currency with the rise m. whole-; sale food prices, taking one hundred •hi 1.913 a.% the baeis, shows Sweden's cur-, rency expanded to 274, and food 239 ;'• "Britain, 244; food 257; France 365.' food, -330; Italy 440, food 329: America 173. >od 235. ; Tlie exchange on : Calcutta is 2&4 d. ' % « '(Received Nov. 29. 9.20 a.m.) ...V" . '■; . LONDON, Nov. 25. V ■ Arrangements; have, beero made to send an . amateur '. Sbc'c'er "■ team-'' tb'- v New >Zettf.a'ud' and Australia for* the 1921 season if J thjO Dominions' will finance the "tburt y \y*aihi shares are at . 575. 6d. 'tlo 68a. .■ '^lie rise m tin is duertb. active 'buying from important quarters m Amerae£ arid trie Continent. '„';.. -',■'■' § '■<• The Royal assent has been given to' the Commonwealth Act, 1912, Amend* ment Bill. . , ■-■*-<• ■ *•>■■' •; J (One oi Lord Beatty's first acts* as First Sea Lord was to forbid* ihe ?publi» cation of an official account of the Jutr laiid- battle, the preparation •of !whic]ti iiva s '. ordered by Sir . Eric *: Geddes, -the fpfrnier Firsti Sea: Lbvd, " im response td* pre^fiuro; by Lord Jellicoe's. critics. tj.-vA?'* White Paper shows that the public, debt per head since the war . increased m Britain £157. Germany: £128. France £114. ItaJy :£73, Austria £89. Belgium £74, America, £55. Tho Japanese debt increased only >3& per head. ' '"-■■' V' Adeline Patti ;lcft an 'estate of £116,337 gross. .. ■'<".■ - :M (Received' Nov. 29." 11.35 a.m.} '"'"'• . LONDON, Nov. * 25. In the House of Commons Sir J. Cowan affirmed that cables from Aui"j tralasia were now rarely - transmitted uotiHout mutilation, necessitating ref petitions. Mr Illmgworth, repaying, lalicVVpressure on the cables", existed m WjAr'time aaid had not yet ceased. The rsk of ', error m transriiassion exceeded, tlw^normal. There was 'no reason to phirik the, percentage of errors had l ea% increased. Tlie cable authorities 1 were concerned m hiaking- every effort V^J«pi'ove both accuracy and , rapidity., \! Th« by-election: for South Croydon resulted : Allen SriiitK', (Coalition' "UriYonistV 11,777, , H0u1der :Lihara!) 9573; '<:'■ \Or.!.\ ' on a lock-out,. *■ a pitched battlle be tween # poliQe. and' farm laborera. near "Waterford resulted iii!" 1 fiVe^potice aiifd several laborers being- .wounded. The; laborers ignited the hay stacks aifdother produce. Several thchisand pounds' worth of damage was done. > . Tlie Ministry; fw, Food 'eitiiriates the profits from the Inauguration of 4Jie Ministry to the end_of March, ,1920, will bo £i;iO0,00O. * * -■-:•:■-•:■• ■■"' •.':-••.':•• "£.a ! .;-*# ._ ff ., ., Nov. 25.*. «-,'■ Can"adian" r riiffiiu"l^turers "have" asked ,tlnr Federal-Govennment^ tp, appoint a permanent adviabry '" c'ommittee*""tb v iri*' Vestisrate arid readjust the tariff m order t.o %et fat .the •"fihangiiAg Conditions at ihpnte tod jfb^l^t'Th^v liave.'al^b rU quested th^'tiiQ^fo'pji&ed .Teyiliion fol-^ jOwirtg: '. the . Federal Cabinet's enquiry Shouldj *bfe. postponed. The Government to the first request'&ufc -refiisetf it>he; other, claiming they had pledged jthemselyes to tariif yevision at the mext >essiori'of Parliament and would carry put thfe ! promise*!'' • ' i '■•: y '."' -■■ u, yPMtS; : "Nov}-2SfM a ; f ajn^^gg^ ;Amieris."-has;, Bn sentenced ; to 'three "v^nrs* imprison-, intent fbr shooting ahtl 'killing arii ; AustrftHan rsoldler namfed 1 " Moffat; who, PTe 5 -' HeAq' alleged; dema'nHed "spirits 'arid'' ieh •lUsfed *-to pay.' : ■.'■■' ■'•''■'."'* '"_'■■•■'■' .►'-' f