GENERAL NEWS.
Java and China Teas for Australia.
The Minister of Customs at
·Melbourne has announced that the importation of Java and Ühis teas into Australis will be allowed on a basis of 60 per cent. of the 1916 cargoes. This im- portation
prohibited 18
WBS
months ago with a view to pro- moting the consumption of Indian tas. According to figures com. piled by the Tea Export Bureau, Java exported to Australia 10,- 572,000 half-kilos of ten in 1917, while the export before that year averaged about 8,000,000 half- kilos.
English Swans for America, Mr. John D. Hamlyn, the anim- al and bird dealer, of Loudon, ia open to purchase all the swana be can get. He requires them for "Amarios. "The United States," said Mr. Hamlyn, regularly imports some hundreds of swADA each year for her parks, bat hitherto she has not deigned to come to us for them. Now, of course, things are different. Holland, Belgium sod Germany have none. What they had have been eaten. England is the only
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place now she can get, say from. S.
I have been buying all I oân-from the parka in London and else where, but I shall want more.”
One to Another.
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The Central China Post baa been printing in its correspon- dence columns some verses with "ruddy," and other
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A Sensational Story. The Chinese newspapers in Shanghai publish a sensational story that Dr. Sun Yat-een bad appointed a Mr. Tai Tien-chou to negotiate with Japanese capital- iste "for a loan of Y5,000,000 und to purchase 100,000 Japanese Gold Discovered in Wales, rifles. The contract was to be The discovery is reported from made out in Dr. Son's name, saya Wales of a vein of gold on the the North China Daily News, and Cerdmca estate, three miles from he wea to issue loan bonds for Barmouth, made by a discharged $10,000,000 to cover the obliga-Australian soldier, an expert ir: tions, further pledging aseecarity gold mining, who, on behalf of any place or places that may be the Government, has been search. hereafter occupied by him." Aing the Merionethshiremountains. brigade of Japanese volunteers He is stated to be very mach was said to be going to China toplessed with bie discovery so fer help the Mintang, bat the heat and with the gaslity of the gold. he probably inflamed the im aginations of the Shangbai joura- alista.
tree
Shea Butter. Shea butter, the reddish oil of the West African shes Strikes in Germzay. (Butyrospermum Parkii}, is oDe London, Jaue 24.-Extensive of several vegetable boiters that atrikes broke out yesterday in are now of annenal interest 13 Cologne and Halbeim, on the makers of margarine, chocolate, Rhice, owing to a reduction in candles, and soap. The sweet the bread ration, 29,000 persons and wholesome pulp of the nut is quitting work in munition factor- much prized by the natives, and ies, according to a dispatch to the is esid to be nearly two-thirds Daily Mail from The Hague. A batter. The tree, beginning to Dutch workman returning to The bear its crop of ants when about Bagus reports that the military 15 years old, reaches its prime at and police interfered, but failed the age of about 25. to prevent a street procession of more than 9,000 strikers at --- Cologne. The etrikers, who in- cluded women, marched to sa open place, where a mass meeting was beld. All the speakers, who included foremen and forewomen, made this declaration :-" Unleas we get more to eat, we shall not work." The Datchman said that
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THE DIVIDEND DECLARED for the Half Year ending
smallpox is increasing greatly 30th June, 1118, at the rate of among the Krupp workmen at Two Pounds three shillings Ster. ling per share, is payable on and
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