MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14240, 15 December 1919, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

BRITISH COAL SUPPLIES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, December 10. A mining expert estimates that there is sufficient coal in the East Lothian and Mid Lothian districts to last 500 years, producing 6,000,000 tons yearly, ANGLO-FRENCH HARMONY. LEADERS IN CONFERENCE. (Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) LONDON, December 10. , M. Clemenceau had a conference with Mr Lloyd George, in the morning and/ afternoon, lasting four hours and a-half. Considerable progress was made, economic, financial, and nfilitanr subjects being harmoniously discusseea.

AERIAL FATALITY. A CRASH IN A FOG. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) 1 LONDON, December 13. A serious casualty occurred in the cross-Channel air service. A British pilot, while flying to Paris, lost his way in a mist among the Surrey hills, and crashed. Mr Caterham, a passenger, was killed, and tho pilot was seriously injured. REINSTATEMENT REFUSED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) SYDNEY, December 13. Mr R. D. Meagher’s seventh appli. cation for reinstatement on the roll of solicitors was refused. ALIENS NOT WANTED. 1 • J 5 ** ‘ 'Lr DECISION BY FIJI. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) SUVA, December 13. sAn enthusiastic meeting held in the Suva Town Hail, the Mayor presiding, and representatives from all parts of Fiji being present, resolved that the country was unanimous in its determination to exclude from the colony, all former alien enemies, and asks tho Governor to take immediate steps to communicate to all such persons the fact that their return to the colony is strongly resented by the people, and should they attempt Ho do so, their safety may be imperilled. A deputation will wait on the Governor to-day.

THE ENTENTE’S BLOCKADE. SERIOUS EFFECT IN GERMANY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) BERLIN, Dec. 11. Official medical data declares that the Entente’s blockade lias destroyed generations. The campaign again* t tuberculosis, taking the situation in 1913 as a guide, shows that 80,000 more persons died of tuberculosis in the period from 1911 to 1910 than would have been expected.