MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 23 March 1910, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

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BERLIN, Tuesday

I-lerr do, Waldthi)iisen, lately German Minister at Buenos Ayres, has given the Kaiser £IO,OOO to promote German schools iu Argentine, Uruguay, and Paraguay. FREMANTLE, Tuesday.

The steamer Otway arrived from England with a, ease of smallpox aboard. The patient is a bov in the third-class. MELBOURNE. Tues.

Messrs Robinson Bros, are the successful tenderers for 40 ammunition waggons and limbers for the Commonwealth Government. The amount of the tender is £16,800.

Tho, Victorian wheat yield is 27,180.000 bushels, the nighest aggregate harvested in the State.

The Australian Defence Department has been notified that the King ha.s approved the general medal for long service and good conduct in the permanent forces of the Empire beyond the s«us. AUCKLAND, Tuesday.

A cold snap was experienced here today, when the wind was from th;. soulh-east quarter. Rain also fell, and the day and night were both quite windy, neessitatiug the lighting of tires. During the past week th. temperature has dropped about ten degrees. WANG ANTE Tuesday.

It is considered probable that the Wanganui Garrison Band will compete at tlir. coming Ballarat contest.

Whether or not the suburb of Aranioho should be joined to the borough of Wanganui has occupied public attention for a long time past, and various petitions and counter-pel it ions have been sent to the Minister of Internal Affairs, who has on at least two occasions con ferrcd with the interested parlies. He has now notified the Ifyrotigh Counci: that he proposes to advise the GowruV to annex Aramobo to the borouuh. WELLINGTON. Tuesday.

The _ Cabinet has decided to-dav h authorise the erection of quarters for the police matron at Clirisichureh, and new post offices at Wa ; au (Canterbury) and Patatnhi. Railway construction' vote> totalling £14.C00 were also authorised. The Hoyernmeni iiiiinds to appoint ;; Royal Commission to inquire into {he Ohinemuri river silting question, compensation claims having been made by land owners for damage arising from (he iis=j. of the river as a sludge channel.