CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9651, 3 January 1910, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. Melbourne, January 1. A grass fire at Mildura destroyed 10,000 acres. Capetown, January 1. The Transvaal Government has asked the Prime Minister to select and appoint a flock-master to superintend the Transvaal Stud Sheep De’: partmenfc and to travel the country and instruct farmers in the selection and management of sheep. The salary is to be £650, rising to £BOO

Brisbane, January 1

A lady, visiting the Barron Falls, had a thrilling adventure. She fell over a cliff, but her dress [caught a tree 80 feet down and she hung suspended 500 feet from the bottom. She was rescued cut and bruised slightly. Lord Kitchener has arrived. Ho was accorded a Mayoral reception, which was largely attended. Calcutta, January 1.

Remarkable prosperity has been met with in the Indian cotton cultivation this year. Ten thousand bales have already been shipped to America with the prospect of a large demand in the near future. Pekin, January 1.

The Chinese Government is send ing several officers to Count Zap pelin’s airship school.

London, January 3

The employees o f Lever Bros., who participate in the firm’s co-part-nership scheme, received a dividend of 7 per centum. The British quarterly returns show that the revenue waa £32,880,000. Tho Customs contributed £7,548,000 ; excise £9,696,000; stamps £3,146,000.

The liabilities of the Law Guarantee Trust total a’.mllliou and a half. A farther call of a pound per share is expected.

Lord Blyth presided at the inaugural luncheon of she British Empire Club, winch will open to-mor-row It has a strong membership, including many Colonials. The fine premises are situated in St. names’ Square. The 1 newspaper Engineering states that the tonnage of the ships built in 1909 in the United Kingdom was 1,303.496, which is 13,600 in excess of 1908, but 837,0C0 below that of 1907.

A Board of Education Committee, with Sir G. Trevelyan as chairman is making inquiries regarding education endowments and whether legislation is desirable to confer powers on local authorities in respect thereto with the view of utilising them to the best advantage.

Mr John Bnrus has appointed Mr Eastwood Pathologist to the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, as an additional inspector to the Board of Health. The immediate object is to inquire into and co-operate with the methods of diagnosis already utilised by the sanitary authorities to prevent the infection of food. The Scottish Churches Commissioner has allocated the minority (now known as the Free Church) £466,000 out of a total of over a million.

The only New Year honour anno nnoed is that the Begum of Bhopal (the only woman ruler in India) has been created a Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.

Ottawa, January 2

Canada, owing to the improved tone of the money market, is redeeming her 1885 loan of four million four per cents, on July Ist. Sydney, January 1.

The Daily Telegraph estimates that Labour lost over a million in wages through strikes during the year. The bankruptcy returns for Tthe year show the liabilities at £168,000 and the assets at £BO,OOO-a record for lightness. The New South Wales Government has contributed £SOO towards the Waratah fund.

There are some doubts about the sanity of Casey, the self-confessed Armidale murderer.

Sydney, January 3

A heavy thunderstorm has given a month’s water supply to Broken Hill, which was on the verge of a water famine.

Brisbane, January 3,

An uncharted rook has been d iscovered where the Papanni struck covered witb 10 feet of water, and is four and a half miles off Waterhouse Island. It is wonderful it has not been struck before as it is in the dir eot route of vessels. London, January 3. A Suffragette throwing acid damaged the canvassing cards in Burns’ committee room, injuring a clerk in the hands and eye. She then rushed out and escaped on a bicycleOwing to TAmerica’s growing interests the r t O,;ant Pacific fleet has subdivided into Asiatic and Pacific fleets respectively. P. ris, January 2. M. _Clemenceau, uiter his explanations, remains a member of the Socialist Radical Party. The International Arbitration League in a letter describts Blatchford as a scaremonger, and a mere pawn in the Opposition’s party game. -