GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 23 April 1925, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

GERMAN REVENUE. BERLIN. April £l. The Reich’s revenue returns for the year ending Alarch 31 Hmw a total revenue of seven thousand million marks, a surplus of two thousand milli'ir. over the estiamie. - . The revenue I’roi;. iiico-.’u' ia.\ and customs shows a surplus • f nine, hnn Ired million marks ar.il four hundred and fifty million marks, respectively, over the estimates. EMIGRNT STREAM. TJ)NI a > \. Ami: 21. E iiigr-ition from the Fr State to Al. is nssuming ;:s’ proportions. Tw-'lve hundred yeme. mm; and women .-ai J* : on April 19. The exodus (luring the wint ! T aver aged between four and six hundred weekly. A thousand hav«- already booked passages for Hi<* next week-end. Seven lines, including tw;» German, are engaged in emigrant traffic. ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. ROME, April 21. Deputy Farnicci is bringing in a Bill reintroducing the death penalty for murder, but there is little chance of it passing, as Premier Alussilini is striugly opposed thereto, on tli-- ground that capital punishment is contrary to public opinion. FR ANCO-CII INESE Fl N A NCI A L CONVENTION. PEKIN. April 27. It is understood tliut letters exchanged between the Foreign Minister and the French Minister, settling the gold franc question, will be issued simultaneously to-day in Paris and Pekin. The French agree that the unpaid balance of the Flench share of the Boxer indemnity shall be retroced cd to Cliina. They also agree to consider the service resumed From Ueceincr I, last, instead of December 1, 1922, refunding to China the twentyfour monthly instalments matured and postponed. China agrees that the balance of indemnity (calculated on the basis of telegraphic transfer, in accordance with the 19(15 protocol, with the eventual exchange profit, which might have resulted from this mode of payment) be converted into American gold dollars, and advanced to lh’ Banque. Imlustricllc hy annuties from December 1.. 1921 to 1917, iu order to secure a loan, ivssued in gold di.-l lars, bearing five per cent inter--st, redeemable in twenty-three years. 'I he bonds to be issued as above, will be applied to Ear Eastern creditors o* the Bankue Industrielk* and FrancoChincse educational ami philanthropic institutions, according to conditions, ■/early determinable at Pekin. A MUSSOLINI EDICT. Received April 22 5-5 p.in.) ROME, April 21. Premier Mussolini has declared that the anniversary of the toundat’.on of the city of Rome, April 21st, which is traditionally accepted as tne twentxfirst of April, 753. shall be a national holiday, instead of Labour Da\. CANADIAN BOWLERS FOR N.Z OTTAWA. April 22. A team of Canadian bowlers will pro bably visit New Zealand as an invitation from the New Zealand Bowling Association will bo actel en at an early , date by the Dominion Association, | AN ABANDONED BABY. ROME. April 21. At V' liive a doctor, while walking to Ik - - in Marco Cathedral, heard a baby i-rymg. He traced the sounds to the tomb of the Dogo Morosini, erected in 1269, where he found a baby six days ■•’d in the sarcophagus. As the news spread, a crowd collected in order tc Ivr.'-h the mother, but she was not to be I mini. The baby has been handed over to the care of the Anns.