GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
Eighteen reservoirs are blazing at Baku, Russia, and 8.000 tons of oil have been consumed. The Rev. Mr. Colwell has be°n elected president of the New South Wales Methodist conference. The N.S.W. Cabinet has appointed Mr Nielsen (ex-Minister for Lands), the executive commissioner for New South Wales to the Panama Exhibition. An envoy of the King of Siam arrived at Fremantle by the Medina to study the horse-breeding industry. He will probably take some horses back to Siam. The N.S.W. Rugby TJnion proposes to aek that the New Zealand team visiting Australia during the coming winter be allowed to play an extra match in aid of the Olympic fund. At the British Empire Club luncheon in London yesterday, Mr Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand) invited Sir R. S. Munro Ferguson to visit New Zealand. The latter laughingly asked Captain Collins whe.ther he could do so.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 48, 25 February 1914, Page 5
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150GENERAL CABLE NEWS. Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 48, 25 February 1914, Page 5
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