MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7110, 23 April 1910, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MEALS FOB SCHOOL CffOLDREIN. LONDON, April 21. Tho report of the Board of Education on tho working of tho Provision of Meals to Schoolchildren Act, shows that tho average cost of meals to Loudon school children was twopence. The number of meals supplied in the province during the j?€ar of tho operation of tho Act was 2.751,320, and in tho second year 9,071,789, Reports regarding tho United Kingdom as a whole testify that tho children arc brighter and more efficient since tho passing of the Act.

COTTON BROKERS FAIL. NEW YORK, April 21. A firm of Alabama cotton brokers, Knight, Yancey and Company, is bankrupt. Tho liabilities total 3,000,000 dollars, and tho assets 500,000 dollars (not including equities).

CONGREGATIONAL UNION FUND, LONDON, April 21.

One-lialf the Congregational Union’s ■quarter of a million Central Augmentation Fund for the support of congregations unable to pay their ministers a living wage has been raised.

BRUSSELS EXHIBITION. LONDON, April 21. Owing to tho establishment of a Board of Trade Exhibitions Department, Groat Britain’s display at tho Brussels Exhibition, to bo opehed on Saturday next, will bo tho finest of any foreign exhibition.

TRANSANDINE ROUTE. LONDON, April 21,

In view _of the completion of tho Traus-Andine railway, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company is building four fast steamers to carry on a direct service between England and Buenos Ayres.

ROBBiERS IN THE KREMLIN. ST. PETERSBURG, April 21. A robbery from the Uspensky Cathedral, in the Kremlin, Moscow, is reported. A diamond ornament; of the value of £20,000. was taken from the famous ikon of the Virgin, and £BOOO worth of other gems also disappeared. FIRE ON THE SONNEBHRiG. SYDNEY, Anvil 22. The underwriters have received ad vice that the fire on the German steamer Sonneberg, which put in to Aden last week with No. 3 hold ablaze, has been got under.' }IINOR ITEMS. ■ Mr Roosevelt received a warm wcl oomo on his arrival in Paris.

Halley’s _ comet has been observed from the signal station at Gibraltar. Sixty cases of typhoid at Fitzroy', a Melbourne suburb, are traceable to ono milk run.

Owing to tho cost (estimated at £550), tiie London County Council declined Sir Ernest Shackleton’s suggestion that the council should enable school children to visit the Antarctic exhibition-