GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1928, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

EXPERT VET’S. VISIT.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

LQNDON, March 8. Mr Dunlop Young sails by the Orsova on March 31 to attend conferences of veterinary officials at Melbourne, thence he goes to New Zealand to see sheep-killing. He returns to Sydney at the end of June, and tours all the States for two months and later returns to New Zealand to see the calf-killing. Thence he goes to Canada and the United States.

GERMAN MEAT IMPORTS

BERLIN, March 9. In response to the agitation by Ger- / man agrarians, the Federal Council reduced the quota of frozen meat allowed to enter duty free to fifty thousand tons annually The ordinance will be submitted to the Reichstag, before the dissolution, as part of the Government’s emergency legislation.

JUGO SLAVIAN DISSENSIONS.

BELGRADE, August 9.

M. Raditch was responsible for- another uproar in Parliament. He declared that Serbia instigated war with eyes on the Adriatic, which she was now neglecting.

Members of the Government Party attempted to strike M. Raditch and the proceedings became so violent that the session was temporarily suspended. PRAYER BOOK REVISION. LONDON, March 9. The House of Bishops has been in session for five days, revising the Prayer Book, in the light of the amendments moved by the House of Clergy and Laity, and adjourned till March 5. The final form will be issued for consideration of the Convocations of Canterbury and York on March 28, and a special session of Church Assembly will, on April 26, give its final approval.

ARCHDEACON INSANE

LONDON, March 9.

One of the most remarkable church dramas of recent times is recalled by the announcement that ex-Archddacon Wakeford has been certified insane and sent to Kent County asylum. The case was heard by the Privy Council in February 1921. (Archdeacon Wakeford was accused of misconduct with women. There was considerable litigation over the charges).

WOOL PACKS.

LONDON, March 8. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce Wool Pack Committee reporting on the Bairds Pack, unanimously agreed that the lining contained vegetable fibre and would have the same deleterious effect as jute, and was easily torn. Not only were there paiticles of jite found in the wool, but also particles of the lining.