GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

ISLAND ERUPTION. > (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) ißy Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) SUVA, July 30. The British Consul at Tonga reports volcanic eruption on the Island of Niuafoou in the Tongan Group. Futu village has been destroyed, and although no lives were lost the people are absolutely destitute. RHODES LECTURER. RUGBY, July 29. General Smuts has accepted the invitation of the Vice-Chancellor of the Univeristy of Oxford, and the Rhodes Trustees to be Rhodes Memorial lecturer for the year 1929-1930. General Smuts will reside in Oxford .during the coming Michaelmas term. The title of his lectures will be announced later. .WHEAT CROP PAYMENTS. MONTREAL, July 30. A Winnipeg messages states that Mr Ramsay has announced the distribution of nearly forty million dollars as the second interim payment on wheat and coarse grains by Canadian wheat pools last year. The pools adopted a new policy of adjusting all spreads and making all deductions for elevator, commercial, reserve carrying charges, etc., from the second interim payment, and this course was followed this year. Mr. Ramsay also announced that an interim payment, amounting to over two and a-half million dollars, was being distributed by coarse grains pool in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. NEW YORK, July 30. Chicago Wheat: July 139, September 143 g, December 151 J, March 1565. RUSSIA AND CHINA SHANGHAI, July 30. An unofficial telegram has been received at Nanking expressing the Soviet’s desire to negotiate for a settlement of the present issue of the Chinese railway, at Harbin.

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RUGBY, July 30. The number of’unemployed on July 22 was 1,122,600. This was 14,065 less than a week before, and 160,334 less than a year before. TURTLE ISLANDS’ TREATY. WASHINGTON, July 30. The treaty between Great Britain and the United States, determining the sovereignty of the Turtle Islands, and establishing • the southern boundary of the Philippines, has been drafted by the State Department, and the signature is expected this week. It is expected that the treaty will acknowledge American sovereignty to the Turtles, assigning administration to the British. Since 1885, the British administered the Islands under the provisions of the Spanish-German-British protocol. After the Philippines had been ceded to the United States by Spain, the United States entered a provisional agreement with Britain to continue British administration.