GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
Mrs. Ella Wilson has been elected Mayor of Hunnerw.ell, Kansas. Tbe estate of Viscount Wolverhampton has been valued for probate at £94,523. Mr. Asquith has conferred a civil list pension of £150 annually on W. B. Yeats, poet. Sir E. W. Shaekleton has appealed for assistance for Dr. Mawson's Antarctic expedition. Experts are to be engaged to investigate the prevalence of worm nodules in Australian beef. The Easter rush to Sydney is phenomenal, and every place of accommodation is already overcrowded. The s.s. Whangape encountered the recent gale while crossing the Tasman Sea. The horses and cattle aboard were knocked about, and three horses killed. Tlie Judge has decided against the Government in the Alaskan coal cases. The point regarding foreign corporations' right to hold coal claims in Alaska awaits consideration,
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 81, 5 April 1911, Page 5
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