GENERAL ITEMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18786, 21 May 1923, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS

The Serbian Government has accepted Germany’s offer to build five wireless stations in Jugoslavia as part payment of reparations. Mr. E. S. Montague, ex-Secretary for India, has relinquished politics and is goin< into business. He is joining one of the Barnato Joel groups. The U.S. State Department has been informed of the Soviet’s seizure of 300,000 dollars’ worth of American companies property at Vladivostok. When the American Consulate closed on April 27th, the British, French, and Italian Consuls also left, the Japanese and Chinese being the only Consuls remaining. The N.S.W. Presbyterian General Assembly carried a motion of approval of union with the Methodist and •Congregational Churches. The amendment seeking disapproval was rejected by 114 to 83. The British Government is sending Mr. F. B. Smith, formerly Director of Agriculture in South Africa, and a recognised expert on agriculture, to join the overseas settlement delegation and report on the prospects of land settlement in Australia and New Zealand. He leaves on the Sth of June.

The Captain Cook documents which were recently purchased— in London have arrived in Sydney, and will be exhibited at Federal Parliament House before being placed in the Mitchell Library.