GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17730, 2 December 1919, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, November 28

Mr. Lloyd George, in a written reply to a question, stated that the date of exchange of the ratification of the Peace Treaty wi\s still liable to postponement owing to the difficulty of completing arrangements with Germany in regard to the administration of occupied territories.

NEW YORK, November 26

The Department of Labour has announced that Alexander Berkman will be deported.

The United States Consul at Funchal reports that the Madiera wine crop has decreased 40 per cent, owing to the inclement weather.

DARWIN, December 1

The Royal Commissioner, ActingAdministrator, and a new police patrol have arrived. There was no demonstration.

PARIS, November 28

The Supreme Council has decided that the -Roumanian \ Government's reply to the last Entente's Note must be handed to the Allied representative at Bucharest by, the 2nd December.

MELBOURNE, December 1

The Rev. Ernest Davies lias been elected president of the Congregational Union of Australia and New Zealand.

The Australian note, issue now amounts to £54.643,232, the gold reserve being £23,K32,177. SYDNEY, December 1.

A ballot among the northern miners resulted in favour of a six-hour day, one big Union, and abolition of the contract system.

PARIS, November 30

The Bulgarian Treaty includes the surrender of Thrace by Bulgaria, the cession of territory within the bend of the Strumnitza, and the belt of territory on the Servian frontier in the north-west, also the reduction of the army to 2(1,000, and the payment of two milliards 250 million francs as reparation.

WASHINGTON, November 30

According to a message from Albany, the New York health commissioner has aUvised the closing of Ontario to the New York border, due to the smallpox epidemic in Ontario.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 1919.