GENERAL CABLED

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 224, 16 June 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLED

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Following the examplo of the Federal legislators, New South. Wales State legislators are actively eanvnssing for aa increase in their salaries from £500 to i'7so. Tha King, at Buckingham Palace, invested General Sir lan Hamilton with the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St George.

A London "Times" message states that the appointment of the following new bishops is announced: l)r. 11. H. Heneon, Bishop of Hereford, to bo Bishop of Durham; the Eev. H. H. Williams, Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, to bo Bishop of Carlisle; Dr. J. Strong, to be Bishop of Eipon; Dr. Lytton Smith, to be Bishop of Hereford.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie tendered a. reception to Lord and Lady Jellicoe at the Hotel Victoria. There were no speeches. Three hundred were present, including Lords Deslrorough, Clifford, Islington, Soutlnvark, the Earl and Countess of Eardwicke, the Agents-General and High Commissioners, the Bishop of Auckland and the Dean of Dunedin.

Advices received at Paris from Tangiers states that, after several years of intermittent fighting and serious Josses, tho French authorities have socured the sub-' mission of powerful Zair. tribesmen inhabiting the western s'.opes of the Lesser Atlas. Great reconciliation fetes were held, and the tribesmen restored captured, trophies. _ Their submission opens an important direct route from Fez to llarrakesh.

A Eeuter message from London states that the final meeting of the Imperial Entomological Conference, Viscount Earcourt prcsidingj passed a resolution in favour of holding a similar conference in London evoir five years. It established an Imperial Bureau of Entomology on a permanent basis and recommended that the contributory .Governments should guarantee contributions, and that provision should bo made for a total income of .£3OOO.

A Bill lias introduced in the Senate providing for the formation of the United States Oil Corporation to develop oil resources in foreign countries. The' corporation would giro the United States a preferential right to take nil the supplies ,it market'prices. American citizens would own the majority of the stock. The corporation's president would appoint the corporation's officers.. The Secretary for tho Interior, Mr. J. B. Payne, sent a. letter to tho Senate objecting to these provisions, but indicating that tho Administration otherwise regards tho measure favourably.