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[Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.] EMPIRE SETTLE! IENT. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, April 20. The Church of England Empire Settlement Council announce that owing to the rapid growth of work, the Board has been obliged to increase its staff, and has appointed General Sir George MacMunn, ex-High Commissioner and Commandcr-in-Chief in Mesopotamia, mid Quarter-master General in India to be organising Director. Colonel J. R. Stanley will then become Chairman of the Executive Committee .Tlie Council will initiate several new projects possibly necessitating tlie Chairman rusting tho Dominions. Major Astor has joined tlie Executive.
HOSTILITIES TO CEASE. [“Sydney Sun” Cables.] MADRID, . April 21. A Mellilla. message says Krim lias ordered the cessation of hostilities and threatens severe punishment if further disobeyed. JAPANESE STORM LOSSES. TOKIO, April 20. Owing to storms sweeping the entire coast of Japan Sea yesterday, over one hundred fishermen are reported missing. Local authorities at Mnizuru assisted by a destroyer are engaged in a search. Other localities also suffered damage, including a large bridge blown down at Inchinosiki in Iwate Prefecture. Two hundred houses near Sapporo were submerged. A boat containing seven members of a wedding party off Kurile Islands, capsized and all were drowned. UNFOUNDED RUMOUR. LONDON, April 20. The report that a Cabinet Minister is a large beneficiary under Houston s will proves unfounded. TITLE CONFERRED. LONDON, April 20. The King has approved of the confirment of Marquisate of the United Kingdom, on Lord Reading, late Viceroy of India.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1926, Page 3
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