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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14253, 2 January 1920, Page 5

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LONDON, December 31. • The air mall service to Paris will be utilised in future to catch the Australian mail. This will enable letters to be despatched 18 hours later than through the ordinary channel of the London post,The Times Red Cross Fund has offered Dominion societies £500,000 for the treatment of wounded soldiers and general sickness. A sum of £1,350,000 is being handed over to nursing institutions on condition that priority is given to the dependants of combatants. The cotton boom exhibits an amazed record of fortunes made unexpectedly in a few hours. In many cases managers and foremen have combined in the nurchase of mills, knowing that tremendous profits are assured. Two hundred mills have changed hands. Frequently five, times the value of the mills in 1918 has been paid. Solicitors have been permitted to advance the fees of barristers 20 per cent. Doctors have advanced their fees 50 per cent. HOBART, December 31. The flimutaka has arrived en route to New Zealand. She has 450 soldiers aboard. The vessel Is. delayed here owing to an inquest on a fireman who ,fell and fractured his skull. CAPETOWN, December 31. Owing to prolonged, severe drought, famine is feared in the native territories. The food shortage affects about a million natives. The Government is organising a system of relief, including the distribution of maize by mechanical transport. NEW YORK, December 81. It is announced that Fred Fulton and Jack Morgan, two aspirants to the world's heavy-weight boxmg championship will meet on January 12. Received January 2, 12.15 a.m. SYDNEY, January 1. , The New South Wales revenue for the half year increased by £1,729,000, compared with the previous •corresponding period. The weather is fine, but hot. There are big crowds at 'the various sporting i*p sorts MELBOURNE, January 1. Sir Lauchlan McKenna has retired from the general managership of the Argus. Mr A. Iloltz succeeds him. SYDNEY, January 1 The breweries have issued an ultimatum that unless the anen-return today their positions will be filled. ADELAIDE, January 2. The revenue lor the half-year . increased by £208,741, compared with the previous corresponding period. It is unofficially stated .that following the "go-slow" policy adopted by the men in the railway workshops, a number have been discharged for deliberate faulty workmanship, which, if not detected, would have resulted in a serious railway accident. MELBOURNE, January 2. The Federal Government has repealed the wartime regulations for controlling the formation of companies and the of capital excepting as regards persons of foreign birth, or those resident outside the Empire, or where the capital is required for an undertaking outside Australia. £ I The Federal Government has ;; ar- ! ranged for the banks to advance farmers us a bushel on wheat certificates, ; held in'respeet of the new harvest.