MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20055, 18 September 1920, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

* , LONDON, September ,17. -Reports from Kovno state that the >, .food situation in Soviet 'Russia isbee, coming i critical Owing to drought iu sK-tho grain producing 'regions round , Volga; the harvest is exceedingly bad, ' And the. haV crops are a. failure. _ ’ |WASHINGTON. September 17. , .'The United States Mint reports that the United States gold production fpr i): 1919 itdtailed 2,918.628 ounces, rained "’»t 60,383,400 dollars, and the silver' iS'Rrodilotioii 66,662,415 ounces, valued : at 63,683,652 dollars. NEW YORK,' September 17. '-’ ' ■-Th® jLondori,' coifespondent of the ; ‘Evening Sun ” learns that. the enIstfiagement of the -Duke of Connaught &fo; tho widowed Lady Essex, formerly - ’ f TDK 10, September 16. r In iorder to relieve the silk industry , ' jikt Government will lend the silk k, iffudicate 60,000,000 yen, with an ndsfettUional 13,000,000 through the Bank ,'Janaji, with tho'object of raaintnin|4ng 'the price of raw silk and controlpllng’l exports. • ■ SYDNEY, September 18. "v 1 V-Tl&i&apcb ■ Government is making Tihltnn seat'fuel oil station fdr Pacific I >■ ripping. Three large tanks, each capoMo of storing a thousand barrels, are-’in course of construction, ‘ ( LONDON, September 17. ,connection with the settlement of ' ,ipe lelectricinns’ dispute it has been l«AKrcfed that foremen will-not-be com->-tpcljpd f: to'join the Electrical Trades y tTiAOnt-'Hjrhis was the point over which f;l|nllj» the /.trouble • arose.