21 APRIL 1923, page 3

On Tuesday The House Of Bishops Of The National Assembly

passed a resolution giving " general approval " to the Revised Prayer Book (Permissive Use) Measure. Three Bishops voted against it. We have much sym- pathy with those Bishops......

On May 1st A Connected Trans-european Airway From...

Moscow will be opened. Arrangements have been made by the German and British Governments whereby the Daimler Hire Company in co-operation -with certain Dutch and German......

The Building Strike, Which Last Week Seemed Almost...

averted by a margin of about two hours. The immediate credit of this undoubtedly rests with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. On Friday the 18th, when all negotiations had apparently......

- The Speeches Of Our Larger Industrialists Have Now, For

good or ill, assumed a. national importance. Last Satur- day's Times contained a four-column report of Lord Leverhulme's speech at the annual general meeting of Lever Brothers,......

The Total Indebtedness Of A Settler Both For Land And

advances must not exceed £1,500. The land is to be paid for at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the capital value. This will wipe out capital cost and interest in thirty-six......

Through The Good Offices Of The Oversea Settlement...

British Government, the Australian Government, and the State Government of Victoria have entered into an agreement for the settlement in Victoria during the next five years of......

An Assertion Has Come From America Of The Final Verification

of Einstein's Law of Gravitation. This is a result of the eclipse observations made last September in a remote corner of Australia by the Lick Observatory party, under Dr.......

Bank Rate, 8 Per Cent., Changed From 31 Per Cent.

July 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday. 103 ; Thursday week 10211, ; a year ago, 101. •......