HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16422, 16 January 1919, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

PRINCESS "PAT'S" MARRIAGE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, January 13. It is officially stated that the marriage of Princess Patricia to Commander Ramsay will be celebrated in Westminster Abbey on February 27 th. GOfcD TRUST FUND. NEW YORK, January 11. The Allies are discussing the possibility of forming a Gola Trust Fund, to be deposited with the Bank c>f England, with the object of eliminating the necessity for shipping gold between countries as the rate of exchange varies. It is expected that the Peace Conference will discuss the mattor. TAX ON CAPITAL. ROME, January 12.The Government contemplates imposing » tax ou capital accumulated during the war, also a tax on the dividend* ol: commercial and industrial iirms. EXPLORER SHOT. NEW YORK. January 11. M. Jacques Lobaudy, the famous French explorer, was fatally shot by h\; wire. FEEDING EUROPE. PARIS. January 12. Tito first meeting of the Allies' Supremo Council for Supply and Relief o-taMished a .secretariat antj discussed i'ne aspects of measures for feeding Eu?-oue. PROVISION FOR THE FUTURE. (Ilc-uier'3 Telegrams.) (Received Jnnuarv 16th. 1.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, January 14. A newspaper states on reliable authority that two million marks, belonging to Hapsuurg families, were recently deposited in an Amsterdam bank.