MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17019, 16 December 1920, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

I < I ■' Dr. Copo lias sailed from Jlontc ' for Hope iiay. whore the main body of . th? expedition is awaiting him. All difficulties have been overcome. The French losses in Syria were twenty killed and forty wounded. Ihc j Turks at the same tune attacked an- ; other post. northward of Lutakia. 1 A proposal to amalgamato St. Stephen's and Scots C'htnvh, Sydney, and make one central city church, was defeated at the Presbytery meeting by one vote. It is reported from Sydney that the ; ftonrd of Trade has decided that the living wage of £4 5s shall in future 1 apply to tho whole State, instead of, as ! at present, to certain counties. ! At tho Anglican Synod, Sydney. i Archbishop Wricrlit explained the recent Lamb-c-th declaration regardins the ; union of churches, and made a forcib.>; and eloquent appeal for the reunion oi Christendom. The "Now York AVorld" announces that offkial returns show that the total vote in tho Presidential election was 9" 101.673 oT whifh'M!' "W. G. Hardin.rr rn-p : -,-p'l 10,039,378, and Mr J. M. Ccr. 9,131,701. ! The Kind's bantjiiot, nrranped to accord the thanks of their Majesties for ' the ; Australasian hospitality to the i Prince of Wales, was attended bv tho Dowaqrcr I\rnrchioness of Linlithgow, the Earl and Countess of L-ivevpool. and Viscount Novar of Eaitb (formerly Sir Ronald iMonrn-Ferguson, Govornor-Gen-eral of Australia). i Constantino, with his family and entourage, departed unceremoniously, from Lucorno'for Groeeo. The Gonevn correspondent of the de Paris" savs that, yielding to M. Rh-illis's representations as to tho po"it : on of Grcoeo if it' defies tho Allies. Constantino intends to resume thi> tTirono for form's sake, and then abdicate in favour o£» the Crrfwn Princo. Lord Birkenlioad announces that the time is not rno for tho institution of an Imperial Coiirt of Appe.il, but tho JndiHa'l Committeo of thV Privy Council should bo installed in a worthy building. Arrangements nre h?m™ mndo to strenjrthen the Indian representatives by rtrovidino: adequn+o remuTtcrat'on for Trid'nn judjros. The Tndian work exceeds that of all the other Dominions". Tho, Honso of Lords rciec.ted, by 57 votes to 41, the second readincr of the .Minis+.ry of Bill, fontainincr ini«o r U"ne r 'us r>rov : si"n t ;. Tlipy pro to«ted they bad been g : vori insufficient time to cmisider its The rejection' of t l '" Bill caused some sensation in politifnl circles.' It mcoriveninnnnß tho Gorernmetit bymalc'npit impossible for them to pny the increased subsidies on new houses after the end of the year. Professor M. TV. McCnllum, of Sydney, criticis'Tifr the present *y=t.<rm of sohool exn'Yni'nntions. asl'^d; ""What is tbo use of tnlkinc of a tv*riH(> Australia with a. Chinese systom of eduenfion hv machinery?" T-To added that it was n mistn.lco allot equal mnrks on nil gubiects, irrespective of their importance. He suwestod a bicrjrer army of secondary school inspectors, who should Bunervi3e tbe giving of certificates by schools which conduct their own examinatidns.