MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14486, 8 October 1920, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

4> BiG FIRE EN MANILA. PUBLIC BUILDINGS DESTROYED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ! LONDON, October 6. Advices from Manila slate that a . great. fire is raging The Senate, ; Treasury, and Mint Buildings have been destroyed. HOME AND FOREIGN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, October fi. The cause of the lire on the liner ■ Bismarck is unknown. Advices from Prague slate that 500 Socialist delegates at Carlsbad, representing over a million German workmen in Czccho-Slovakia, are considering whether to adhere to the Moscow Internationale. Unions representing .'180,003 German miners in Czechoslovakia, have rejected Moscow. BUENOS AYRES, October 5. The crews of Italian steamers in Buenos Ayres struck, protesting against the recent action of the Dalian Government in arresting the seamen who seized a Russian vessel at anchorage, in Genoa. The stevedores went "id in a sympathy strike, refusing In unload the Italian steamers. AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. (United Press Association.) SYDNEY, October 7. The Maheno to-day will take 'ih passengers, who will Join the Manama at Wellington, and will limn he emiipelled to make the passage, via Auckland owing lb dm eulling-oiil. of the ■Ve.v.ia. Tile following tennis team has h"i'u -elected In represent New Smith Wales in New Zealand in Deermher: M. Marsh (captain , N. Reach, S. Menders' n, F. Reach. A. Walt, and It. I'll/,. MELBOURNE. (id-doe 7. Tile Serial" ih I'ealeil a Rill, li\ins 'he entertainment lax. Air Hughes declined le male' any comment. Lord Forster lias been sworn in as (eivernor-Oeneral. He had a line re"eplien. I PERTH. October 7. Sir It. Allinini Ferguson. the ey-Govcnier-Oeneral. has sail' d for London in the Orsova.