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Grey River Argus, 10 December 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

MIGRANTS’ FARES TO CANADA. OTTAWA, December 6. The Minister for Immigration, Mr Forke, announced that the British Government and British Steamship lines had reached an agreement for a fifty dolla r passage rate to Canada for all British migrants, in place of the old rate of ninety-four dollars, the agree inent to become effective on January Ist. EGYPTIAN NEWSPAPER SUPPRESSED. CAIRO, December 7. The Government has suppress?d the Alexandrian Nationalist newspaper Wa din nil, for publishing matter touching the dignity of the King. PRINCESS ELIZABETH’S HOSTEL LONDON. December 7. Lord Dawson arrived from the Pal ace for a dinner at Grosvenor House. '.Park Lane, in aid of Princess Elizabeth’s Hostel for Children, vjhile La ly Dawson was presiding, proposing the health of the King. Lord Dawson, in a bright and witty speech announced at the close of the dinner that £15.000 had been collected, which. together with other subscriptions, amounted to the £25,000 for which they were appealing. CHINESE MURDERER EXECUTED. (Received December 7, at 8 p.m.) LONDON, Decern b‘ r 7. Chung Yi Miao, a young Chinaman convicted of strangling his Chinese bride, was executed at Manchester. No relatives or compatriots were present, probably owing to the fact t hat Miao prolf 'ssed Christianity before death. “SAM WELLER” AND “DICKENS” IN COURT. (Revived December 7, at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 6. Samuel Weller was the name of a witness called for the defeated, in a case at the Reading bounty Court to-day, by H. C. Dickens, a grandson of the novelist, counsel for the doff nee. GRANTS FOR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. LONDON, December 6. To enable Cambridge University to accept the Rockcfellci Foundation’s promised £700.(100 grant towards the development of agriculture, biology and physics, and also to build a now University library. the Government has now offered £50,000 from the public funds. The Empire Mante>.iug Board has also promised £50.000. The total cost of University developmeats is £1 952,000. The University I has given a quarter of a million, tuns a further £145.000 is needed to enable it to acquire the Rockefeller grant