MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 April 1908, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

(Press Association. — CopraiQHT.) LONDON, Monday. The widow of Mr Robert Watson, formerly of Christchurch, has bequeathed a fund; to provide pensions for clergyman in New Zealand upon reaching the age of 65, and annuities for clergymen's widows. NEW YORK, Monday.. Owing to a train in Alaska rendering the route impracticable the region has been eliminated from the New York, to Paris motor race, the motorists going via Vladivostock. PARIS, Monday. A treaty regulating the frontier of the French Congo and the Cameroons has been signed. \ CLARENCE RIVER, Tuesday. 1 Sailed : Alexa, for New Zealand. MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Arrived : Brisbane, from Kaipara. The stock returns show that the number of horses in the State is 424,648; cattle, 1,842,805; sheep, 14,i16,734. In each case the figures are a record. Sheep increased 1,203,000 in the year. The erection of a Federal Small Arms Factory at Lithgow (N.S.W.) will be commenced at once. It is estimated to cost £70,000. SYDNEY, Tuesday. Commissioner McKie, head of the Salvation Army, has received General , Booth's instruction to bid farewell to Australia.