GENERAL CABLES

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 31 May 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT It is stated that® the Pope intends to mark tlie customary Catholic Church Holy Year, 1925, by convoking an Ecumenical Council. This Council will be a coninuation of the Vatican Council of 1870, interrupted by political events, and whose labours were never really concluded, it is expected that nearly all prelates of the Catholic world will make a pilgrimage to Rome. The Council will last several months. (Received 6 p.m., May 30.). Considerable loss of life is reported near Meshed (India) from severe earthquake. .

Sir J. Allen when in Switzerland on June 4 will sign a protocol embodying the amendments to Articles 1.5 and 16 of the League of Nations covenant, adopted by tlie 1921 Assembly. British representatives will sign on behalf of Australia.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

The experts fixed the new, frontier in the Karagatcli region along the line from the river Arda to Mantza, a few miles westward of the town of Karagatch, giving a few villages to the Turks. The line was adopted in spite of objections raised by the Serbian delegates.

The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent states that the ex-Kaiser s latest achievement is a complete and elaborate introduction to the Bible, which has ' been submitted to the Synod of the Evangelical Church to decide regarding publication.

An agreement has been reached by the employers and miners whereby the Ruhr miners’ wages will be increased 55 per cent, to meet the increased cost of living.

According to advices from Essen, the confiscation of money in the Reichsbahk compelled private banks to close early, as they have insufficient cash to meet the demands by the public. A large part of the amount seized was intended to pay the;wages of miners.

The managers of private banks decided to inform the French General that the non-payment of wages was likely to lead to a catastrophe, and request a promise that any fresh supply of bank'notes would not be seized, otherwise no more money would be brought to Essen.

The Methodist Conference has concluded. A resolution was carried commending the League of Nations as a likely means of ensuring the peace of the wprld.

The Prince of Wales received one of the most remarkable welcomes of his life on his arrival at Rotherham, where commenced his industrial tour of Yorkshire. He .walked with prominent persons through tens of thousands of people, who were regulated by the police or barriers. When Ue entered his car he was surrounded by enormous crowds of excited girls ana women, who climbed on to the rootboard and touched the Prmce s arm, shouting, “I touched bun. The car was pushed for some distance by the cheering crowd) but e\eutti&ily go clear.

Representatives of the City and Country Hospitals assembled at the invitation of the Chief Secretary to devise a scheme for the re-orgamsa-tion of the conduct of hospitals.

A comprehensive report on the management of New Zealand hospitals was submitted to the confcience by Dr. Armstrong, and also reports on hospitals in Victoria and , South Australia, the latter of which are based on a system which largely corresponds with New Zealand's. Ihe conference adjourned until Wednesday.

A family of dwarfs, hidden in an attic for 40 years, was discovered after the death of SenoT Lapido, the Spanish composer, who lived a lonely life. When lie house was searched, two sous, aged 40 and 42, were found, both three feet tall, but had perfect bodies. Neither had ever been out of the house and lived like animals.