JAPANESE CABINET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 904, 28 December 1923, Page 5

JAPANESE CABINET.

RESIGNATION REPORTED.

Received December 28, 11.30 a.m. TOKIO, Dec. 27. Cabinet has resigned.—Reuter.

The Loudon Morning Post’s Luxor correspondent reports that Mr Carter and his assistants are dismantling tiie framework on which hung the gold-studded linen pall covering the second shrine. It is understood that they found two alabaster tablets bearing inscriptions, which are expected to shed a stronger light on the facts of Tutankhamen’s reign. The Honduras Government has signed an agreement for the payment of £3,398,570 borrowed fnm Britain from 1867 to 1870 to build a trans-oceunic railway, which failed. No interest has been paid since 1872, and the arrears amount to £22,326,112. Honduras will pay (ho bond holders only 20 per cent, of the /ace value of their bonds.

The Now York Times’ Moscow correspondent says that the State police department contributed to the gaiety of the Christmas season, which technically is not Christmas, by expelling from the city nearly 1000 persons who . wove undesirable urbanites, namely, bootleggers, card sharpers, confidence men, smugglers, usurers, drug users and drug peddlers, keepers of brothels and persons with no regular occupation.