CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12062, 5 January 1907, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Agents^General have secured a large space foi[ a combined Australian display of Franc ((-British goods at the Exhibition at Shej-lherd's Biihh in 1908. The damage I caused by the fire at Portsmouth amount\ to a quarter ot a million sterling. \ Mr Gladstone/ has apointcd Mr Ernebt Ayes, a membt 1 * of the Council of the Royal Economic l Society, as Commissioner to visit Australi;! and New Zealand to enquire into the eilfect of the establishment of the Wages Bo^rd and Compulsory Arbitration Acts. \ After a four years' absence, Madame Melba reappeared i.\^ New York to an immense reception. i Owing to the rcc<>nt earthquake altering the currents of tjhc Pacific, the United States Government Iras undertaken the recharting of the ocecyn. Mr Ludwig Loem>r, a London financier who was largely mfc ?rested in the Westralian markets, has Id ft an estate valued at £1,575,000, which p^ays duly to the extent of £50,000. \ Tbc Board of Trkde has returned the certificate of the qaptain of the ship Speke, which the Melbourne Marine Court suspended for one yeiar on the ground of gross misconduct in stranding the ship on Phillip Island. .' M. Cambon. Frencla Ambassador at London, has been appointed Ambassador at Berlin. \