GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 147, 22 June 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

The Melbourne University Senate has decided to' establish a Professorship of Agriculture. Mr. Wishart Smith, manager of the Midland Eailway, Westralia, has been appointed Tasmanian Eailway Commissioner. At the instance of Lord Denman, Mr. Lloyd George proposes to ask Parliament to vote £2000 to Dr. Mawson's Antarctic Expedition. A youthful Brahmin, accompanying Mr. Ashe's murderer, has been arrested. The crime was the outcome of a carefullyplanned conspiracy. The Ballarat, Boulder, and Kalgoorlie branches of the Miners' Union have decided not to work with non-unionists, but no decisive action will yet be taken. The Westralian annual dinner in London was largely attended. Sir John Forrest, in the course of his speech, prophesied that West Australia in a few years would be the greatest wheat producer of the Commonwealth. Mr. Murray, Premier of Victoria, thoroughly reorganised the Emigration Department. He is investigating the working of railways electrification, particularly in Leeds and Newcastle. After the Coronation he visits Glasgow, Manchester, and Birmingham to inquire into trade and shipping: also represents Viutoria at tho Norwich show. He has been the moving spirit in the conference ol State Premiers in view of the Common--wealth, agenoiea combining their offices. Alter visiting Scotland .vA^toblu&it