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BRITISH TRADE.

London, Feb. 10,

The imports for January amounted to £153,493,388 and exports £105,879,909. The increases were £18,931,- 952 and £53,536,728 respectively, compared with January,

1919.

Manufactured articles exported during January amounted to £83,086,000, compared with 240,202,000 in January last year. The principal increases were in cotton and woollen goods. Germany re-appears both as exporter and importer, sending a quantity of wine in ex- change for manufactured goods and raw materials,

THE SILVER GAMBLE.

London, Feb. 5.

Messrs. Montagu's report dated 5th February says: Sensational rises in price occurred during the week sym- pathetically with the collapse of United States exchange. The market is fairly well supplied from the Continent and elsewhere and rates have remained considerably under American parity owing to the disposition of China to make expensive purchases when the operation can only be describable as a gamble upon future American exchange. The fall in price to-day is due to the improvement in American exchange checking buyera.

NICKEL COINAGE.

London, Feb. 8.

The "National News" says the Mond Nickel Company, the largest metal combine in the country, has received a large contract from the Government to supply the Mint with nickel for the new coinage. The step is necessitat- ed chiefly by the ever-rising price of silver. It will be some time before the change operates.

CENSUS OF THE EMPIRE.

London, Feb. 10.

The Imperial Statistical Conference has completed the work of collection and co-ordination of data relating to agriculture, forests, crops forecasts, fisheries, land tenure and irrigation, also a quinquennial agricultural census. A scheme is completed for the formation of an Imperial Statistics Bureau, thoroughly representative of all parts of the Empire. The committee on the census of the population of the Empire is sitting under the chair- manship of Mr. Knibbs, of Australia.

INDIA STRIKES.

Bombay, Feb. 2.

Work has been resumed at fifty-five cotton mills which were closed as a result of the strike, a fairly large complement of operatives having returned to work.

The strike at the British India Company's dock and one or two other subsidiary strikes have been settled, but the Indian Marine Dockyard strike continues.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT HAVANA,

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Havana,, Feb 7.

A fire destroyed the building of the American Agricultural Chemical Company. The loss is estimated at over $6,000,000. The fire started in the American wooden steamer Brookland, lying at a pier. The vessel was burned to the water's edze.

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WILDE'S FUTURE.

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"Corinthian " writes in the Daily Chronide as follows:-The probable retura of Jimmy Wilde will not surprise those who follow boxing closely, and he will be by no means the first British boxer who bas found circumstances and conditions in America intol erable. To a great extent Wilde has himself to blame. He took a risk that he need not bave taken.

His judgment was at fauit, and while it may be said that every- thing would have been accepted as all right and his action in hoxing at a weight which left him too slow to do himself justice approved if had he won, the fact remains that he misjudged the extent of his powers at a time when he was not able to train properly.

It is something of a blow to British boxing prestige to find Wilde going through a kind of preliminary or qualifying contest. as he will do on New Year's Day at Canton, Ohio. He will meet a boxer named Termaine. the weight being 8st. 4ib.

WILDE MAY STAY IN AMERICA. Wilde's form in this contest may be good enough to cause the International Sporting Club of New York to change the attitude taken up regarding the contract with Wille, who, it is said, had promised to refrain from boxing in serious contest until that body held its opening show.

Jimmy is stated to be far-from. well, which fact added to the other fact that on his last appear- ance on this side he was not box- ing so well as he used to, may Thelp him in arriving at decision to return. Anyhow, it should not be taken for granted that he will come hack immediately after the Termaine contest. Anything like his old brilliance in that affair would be enough to make the Americans clamour to see him again.

Lack of opportunity to acclim atise may be the cause of his feel- ing off colour. Many British boxers have suffered in that re- spect through taking part in con- tests too soon after arrival. How. ever distasteful the fact may be to all of us who have sung the praises of the little boxer there is

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Reeve is taking the match very seriously, and is to go into train ing a little more special than is usual with him. He is quite con- fident in his ability to beat Wells; but if the latter strikes one of his brilliant patches it is quite likely that he will be beaten. It can be said for Reeve that he is not only a good, boxer, but can hit vary hard, and if his training improves his speed he must be regarded as a very dangerous man.

All sorts of reasonable and un- reasonable talk about purses being offered for the Dempsey- Carpentier contest is still going on: but there is no reason why you should be wearied with it until Mr. C. B. Cochran announces the result of his American visit. He is still favourite in the struggle to get the contest.

FURNISHED ROOMS.

JUDGE'S IMPORTANT DE CISION RESTRICTING RENT.

An important decision concern- ing. the renting of furnished apartments was made by Judge Bray at Brentford County Court recently.

A Mr. Goldsmith, who occupies half of a house in Esmond-road, Bedford Park, asked for an orderi that the rent should not exceed by more than 25 per cent, that which applied in August, 1914, | : and also for an order that any amount charged above that 25 per cent. should be refunded. The applicant paid '33s. a week; which included a charge for hire of furniture and use of electric light. In October the landlady raised the rent to £2 123. 61. per week. The rent of the whole house, unfurnished was in 1914 † £50, which was brought up to about £78 by rates, taxes, and lighting. The latter charges had | risen considerably since then.

The Judge made the order ask- ed for fixing the rent for the furnished rooms, inclusiva. of a sum to mest increased taxes, etc., | at £2 2s. 61. a wank, and orderad the repayment of rent paid over that amount,

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