GENERAL CABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 12

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, May 17. ! Advices from Rome state that 1 King George and Queen Alary, in ] connection with their visit, contributed 45.000 lire to be equally dis-1 tributed between the poor, Red Cross,! war orphans, and maimed soldiers. ’ It is understood the Government will introduce a Bill later giving the Home Secretary power to detain suspected persons without bringing them , to trail on a definite chafrge. This! provision was omitted front the In demnity Bill in order to get the latter passed without delay. Lieut.-Colonel Buckley, replying to i a question in the House of Commons. , said that the average yearly rate of emigration, measured by the excess ot outward passengers to other! countries within the Empire was! 1 66.200 in 1910-14. The corresponding figure for 1 922 was 71,700. Gerald Lenox Coningham and H. F. Marriott (of the Imperial Alin eral Resources Bureau), and Doctors, Guy Marshall and Edwin Butler, will represent the British Govern-' ment at the Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress in Australia. PEKIN. Alay 17. I The House of Representatives, in committee, voted a want of confidence in the Administration. The vote was carried by 251 to 70. OTTAWA, May 17. According to a telegram from Quebec. the provincial Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. Air. Caron, in a speech, urged that the Dominion Government should take measures of reprisal against the United States by increasing the duty on American products, to offset the loss which ' Canadian farmers are facing through the Fordney tariff.