LATE CABLE NEWS BUTTER AND CHEESE

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3074, 23 June 1923, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

BUTTER AND CHEESE

MARKET DULL

CHEESE SCARCE

(By Cuble —Press Association). (Received 10.30 u.m.) LONDON, June 21

The butter market is very dull, with little demand for colonial owing to the heavy supplies of Danish, which, are offering at about 154/, and also increasing arrivals from France, Holland and Ireland. The tola! imports for May were 54-l.OOOewt.

Xew Zealand choicest is quoted:— Salted. 152/ to lot/: unsaltcd 154/ to 156/j Australian. .144/ to 14o'/. Very little choicest is offering. Secondary Australian is quoted at .130/ ro 130/. '

Cheese on spot is scarce. Xew Zealand white is quoted at 90/ to 92/, coloured 90/; but 114.000 crates are due to arrive at the week-end. for winch the importers are asking 82/ to SO/. The Australian is practically cleared at 82/ to 84/.

UNION OF CHURCHES MOVEMENT IN CANADA P RESBYTERIA N A PPROVAL (By Cable —Press Association}. VANCOTJV.FR, June 12. The General Assembly has voted to unite the Presbyterian Church in Canada, with the Methodists and Congregational Churches, the vote, 426 to 134, ending after four days of bitter debate, in which the. leaders of Presbyte'rianism opposed the amalgamation. The minority met and decided to carry on the Presbyterian Church as a unit independent of the proposed united church. HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA TWENTY-ONE DEATHS CAUSED. PEOPLE SLEEPING IN PARKS. (By Cable—Press Association) (Received 1.1 a.m.) , NEW YORK". June 21. A heat wave is being experienced throughout the United States, the temperature in New York rising to, 95 d«; grees. Already twenty-one deaths due to heat apoplexy have been reported. In many cities the parks have been opened, and the people are sleeping out in the open to escape the suffocating heat indoors. In Connecticut to-day the thermometer reached the record level of 104 degrees. SMALLPOX IN ENGLAND

ALLOWED TO SPREAD AUTHORITIES ACCUSED LONDON. June 22. A sensational situation concerning the small pox outbreak at Gloucester lies in the fact that the authorities, knowing they had an epidemic, permitted the Trade Fair to be held, which thousands from all pans of the country attended. 'Accusations have boon made, but there has been an attempt to conceal the position, because it would be. detrimental to the trade of the city. Oases believed to have had their source in Gloucester have been reported in London, Liverpool and Cardiff. BRITISH QUESTIONNAIRE

CO MP IJ KIIE XSI VF A Xl.) SEARCHING 'TO FIXIKFRAXCH'S AIM ' LONDON. June 22. "The Nation" says that the delay in reply to the British questionnaire is by no means wholly due to the Belgian crisis,' but the questionnaire is so comprehensive and searching that the Preach Government might reasonably demand considerable time to prepare an answer. The British demand is admirably designed ;so tli n t M. Poincnre's car<!s should be placet! face up on the table. Unless the questions are answered .by studied evasions, wo should have a complete, intelligible . statement o:f what France is really aiming at.