CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 276, 18 November 1905, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

Professor Bannistone is the Moderatorelect of the Free Church of Scotland. The motor reliability contest from Melbourne to Sydney will conclude to-day. Dr. Barnardo had hoped to raise a quarter of a million to clear his homes of the debts existing at the time of his death. The Montreal Board of Trade has invited Mr. Chamberlain to visit Canada. Tenders for frozen mutton and beef for delivery in bulk at Gibraltar, for the year beginning July next, must reach the War Office by March 14. The Rev. P. W. Nevin, minister of Pollokshields Church, Glasgow, has been nominated for the Moderatorship of the Church of Scotland. The building trades outside of London have adopted terms, of settlement in accordance with the scheme deciding detailed conditions of employment which for eight years has prevented strikes in the engineering industry. Replying to the offer of the Premier of New South Wales, of land for immigrants. General Booth announces that he is instituting inquiry as to the quality of the land and its suitability for settlement. The heat wave in New South Wales continues. Over 98 in the shade was registered in Sydney yesterday. Tlie Executive Council has commuted the capital sentence passed on Midwinter, the Louth murderer, who murdered his shearing mate, Frank Rees, for the sake of robbery, to penal servitude for life. In the Federal Senate yesterday the President announced that the bill providing for the acceptance of New Guinea as part of the Commonwealth's territory hod received Royal assent.