GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
The Walker Art Gallery at Liverpool has purchased Miss Bess Horns' (Mel-, bourne) picture "Bon Jour." A total of 78,964-old age pensions arc in operation in the Commonwealth, representing an expenditure of £2,000/100. Queensland has been granted a loan of £1,000,000 from the Federal trust funds at 3} per cent. Official permission baa been accorded the Vancouver cadets to tour Australia. A representative Canadian corps of 60 boys will leave in July, and their tour will last for five months. A conference of the National Free Church Council, held at Cheltenham, is discussing the questions of religious education, Welsh disestablishment, and the relations of capital and labour. Another country fire occurred at Mouhunein, NAW„ yesterday, tine shops, a bakehouse, and a private resi--dauce being destroyed: Lack of water
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 57, 6 March 1912, Page 5
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131GENERAL CABLE NEWS. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 57, 6 March 1912, Page 5
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