GENERAL CABLE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 197, 15 May 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright j Tho City of London Corporation has : passed resolutions condemning the pro-' posal to demolish city churches. ; Tho London Board of Trade lias ap-' pointed Mr. Alexander Simpson, of the Overseas Department', to bo; Trade Commissioner at Sydney. A I'okio message announces that Vis-; count Ishii. former Japanese Ambassador ■ i to the United States, has been appointed',] Ambassador to France. j A Brisbnne message slates that the eld- ] ers oi the Presbyterian Assembly havo j recommended that ministers'' stipends \ should be increased to ,£3OO a year. J A Melbourne message states that Gen- i end Monash has been appointed presi- j dent of a tribunal to determine certain j matters arising out of the recent marine j engineers' strike. j Tho Methodist General Conference, • meeting at Sydney, decided to. cstab- ! lisli a Met'iodist immigration bureau in I London to promote and assist Methodist j immigration to Australia. i It i-? learned that British capital has acquired extensive interests in the General Motors Corporation, slates a message from New York. It is said that' Sir Harry M'Gowan, chairman of the Bonrd of Explosives, recently purchased five ■ million dollars' worth of stock in the corporation. I The Olympic Committee at Durban j has cabled to the Australian organiser j suggesting that the Australian team should participate, in a meeting at Dur- • bah, the proceeds to bo divided between j the Olympic funds of the participating j countries. The Zionist organisation in London is j dispatching Mr. Israel Cohen to Australia, New Zealand, India, and the Far East to explain to Jewish committees the significance of the Peace Conference j decision concerning Palestine, and Taiso ; funds for the furtherance of the Zionists' projects in Palestine..