Financial Resolution Necessary for the Bill Passed by Commons London, Nov. 2!
The House of Commons to-dai approved, by 280 votes to 192, the financial resolution necessary connection with the Local Govern-chequer in the first year, over and above grants hitherto made to the amount of £16,000,000, will be £31,- 000,000.
The Local Government Bill is an extremely complicated measure containing over 100 clauses. It is the final stage of the measure introduced by the Governmant for the reform of the collection of local rates. will relieve industry to the extent of £24,000,000 a year, three-fourths of which will go to the most depressed " industries giving the —Interest in the Cotton Exchange is increasing. A seat changed hands to-day at G-$45,000, an increase of over G. $10,000 on the price a few weeks Tus Hague, Nov. 30:—The trustees of the Rockefeller Founda tion have placed 400,000 florins at the disposal of the University of Utrecht for the establishment of a Loxpox, Nov. 27:—The latest returns give the number of unemployed as 1,364,400, being 16,2 than the week before and 2 more than a year ago.—British Wireless through Reuter. new institute of physiology.—Reuter. 2
Praave, Nov. 21:—Direet wireless telephony' between Czecho-Slovakin and. the United States was me augurated to-day, Dr. Benes, the Yoreiga Minster, conversed." with Mr. F. B. Keliorg, the United States Secretary of State.—Reuter. fleet repair ship Resource was launched at the Vickers-Armstron yard at Barrow-in-Furness to-day. by Mrs. C. M, Headlam, wife of Tiewt.-Col Headlam, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty.-British Wireless through Reuter, New York, Nov. 27:—The board of managers of the New York Cotton Exchange announces that it has approved generally the plan for trading in the securities of cotton-mill companies in addition to the present system of trading in cotton
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