GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17694, 21 October 1919, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, October 18

In connection with the Church Congress at Leicester, a Christian reunion meeting was held and addressed by Anglicans Non-Conformists, the Bishop of Peterborough presiding. He acknowledged the helpfulness of Non-Conformists to the congress, and prayed that the day would ,soon come when they would be one in spirit. Christians in this country had wholly changed recently. Instead of the will to differ there was now the will to agree. The Rev. Carnegie Simpson, a Presbyterian, declared that if some practical step for reunion was not taken in a- reasonable time, reaction might arise in Non-Conformist churches.

PARIS, October 18

Le Matin states that there is a financial crisis in Morocco owing to the fall in the value of the franc, for which the natives only give 12 sous. Commercial life is at a complete standstill, and safes and shops closed- The banks are guarded. Many companies are threatened with bankruptcy. Ten thousand natives at Marrankish surround the banks, demanding their money.

AMSTERDAM, October 1!)

The Berliner Tageblattt states that four Dutch financial institutions are jointly providing Germany with credits totalling fifty million gulden for the purchase of raw materials, conditional on a proportion resulting from manufactures being exported, thereby improving the rate of exchange.

BLOEMFONTEIN, Oct. 18

Before closing, the National Congress adopted Hertzog's motion that the Union Government's contribution towards the maintenance of the navy be discontinued.