MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14362, 13 May 1920, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

NEW YORK, May if. General motor car petrol has been increased to 30 cents a gallon wholesale and 34 to 35 cents retail. i iTTAWA. May I 1. General Sir Arthur Gurrie, Hie Ganadia.n Army Commander-in-Gluef in France, lias accepted the position of principal of the McGill Iniversity. PARIS. May 11. During Hie lasi 30- hours no wireless messages from Moscow have been intercepted by I lie- Eiffel Tower, which usually received such messages every two hours. The GoimeU.of Minislers has ordered Hie dissolution of Hie Gonference of Labour as inimical lo national defence. This is regarded as Hie most drastic measure since Hie railway employees’ moblhsatioiv in Paris. HELSINGFORS. May 0. A Bolshevik wireless message stales that peace has heed concluded between Russia amt Georgia. The Soviet agrees not (.«.» interfere with the internal .affairs of Georgia. AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. SYDNEY, May 11. The Oceanic Steamship Company has purchased the former Austrian Lloyd liner, Majdlia Washington, and proposes to run her in conjunction with the Ventura and Sonoma in a three-weekly service across Hie Pacific. The company lias also purchased the cargo steamer Las Vegas, which will he incorporated with the Oceanic line of steamers and will henceforth come to Sydney Hinder the auspices of the General Steamship Corporation of Sun Francisco, calling at Now Zealand ports. A hospital street collection totalled £1 4, 5 (To. " ‘'Eggs arc" selling wholesale at 3s 2d per dozen. Tills is a record. Owing In diminished supplies, the result of Hie drought, the mace of milk has been increased 2d a gallon.. The Government has decided, in addition lo the scheme of advances in connection with Hi is year’s crop, to make an advance of Is 6d a bushel on the 11) I P-20 wheat cron, with a view to ameliorating,,the position of fhe farmers. ; ■ As the result of investigation by the Licenses Reduction Board Hie number, of hotels in the Stale probably he reduced by 489. Tile "Broken Hill miners, wiio have been on strike for nearly twelve monfiis, have decided to request the State Government to nationalise ■ the mines. The Government is applying lo Hie Commodities Commission lo reduce tile price of meat and clothes. " ’7..; SYDNEY, May 12. . Thee, Federal ’ Executive .of the Federated' Society of Boilermakers and Shipbuilders has decided that any member or branch striking without the consent of life executive will ho refused assistance! also that no members employed in the shipbuilding industry carried on 'under Hie agreement with, the Commonwealth Government shall, on any account, cease work, and all disputes must be referred to a special tribunal appointed for that purpose. BRISBANE May 11. A public meeting at Samara! passed a resolution urging the removal of Judge Murray and the appointment of Mr Staniforth Smith as LieutenantGovernor of Papua. MELBOURNE. May 11. Fully 50 per cent of Hie striking building employees resumed on Saturday. The Government is considering Marconi’s wireless scheme for linking up Australia with the rest of the Empire, and requests for the establishment of stations at Norfolk and Loro How; islands. The question to iic decided is whether the Government can afford lo do the work itself or allow'd lo be done by private enterprise. Lieut.-Colonel Sir George Steward, Chief Commissioner of Police, was killed while driving Ids own motor car. which jiyerturned in attempting lo avoid a collision. ... ... ADELAIDE, May 11. The Supreme Court- has ruled that no private person can sue the Government unless the case is*referred lo the Court by the Governor-General. This means..that, all action against the Govern merit must be referred lo -Melbourne on petition. BRISBANE, May 12. -A nugget of pure gold weighing 143 ounces has hcenluund in the Charters’ Towers goldfield;