BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16112, 28 April 1923, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—Unßed Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, April 26.

As a result of a recent .conference bo-, tween Sir'.TJ Cook, 'Sir 'tU 'Fuller, "Mr.’ 'liawson, and tho Wheat. Selling Committed in London’ the Wheat Comipittee lips agreed to apeept an offer from Xuslirali'a of £1338 in final settlement ,of all; claims for refunding certain ' overpay-; nmnts made to Australia from fjh© profit i otf. the re-sale' to-the Allies; of threemillion tons ,of Australian wheat.from the 1916-17 pool-.: The claim for’ a re-, fund from the 1915J16 pool ’was waived f hv the Wheat Commission. ’The Miners’ Federation Executive applied to fhe Gonl-piining Association for an-increase ip the miners’ minimum; wages. 'The' owners 'emphatically rejected tho application, and suggested that tho miners should accept an eightlibur day as the better way of overcoming the wages difficulty. The, executive declines to discuss this, bitt putsforward a proposal for a six-hour- day. (Received April 28, 9.20 a.m.) , LONDON, April 27.

The Council of the Rugby League decided to accept tho New South Wales League's offer for a team to tour Australia in 1924. (Received April 28, 1.50 p.in. LONDON, April 27. .Jim Larkin, the Irish agitator, has arrived at Southampton from the United States. He refused to say whether lie was going to Ireland. The ship’s papers showed he was going to Dublin. Tho address of Mr. H. Dawson, the president, in addressing tho Huddersfield. Chamber pf Commerce, said the 1 FrenclnCanadian convention, which proposed fb reduce considerably the pro-, fercnco on British goods, would .beja serious blow to the West Riding textile trade. Canada’s action was more like tho act of an enemy than a member of the Imperial household. ‘Charles Worsley, tho New Zealand artist, has died in Brescia of bronchial pneumonia. [Mr. Worsley was at- one time resident in Gisborne].