CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13332, 22 March 1911, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

The largest graving dock in the world has been completed at Belfast. The population of India totals three hundred and fifteen millions. A referendum of Broken Hill miners largely favoured signing a wages agreement with the proprietors. An Indian loan of £2, 500,000, carrying 3i per cent, interest, has been oversubscribed at 96. The cholera outbreak at Honolulu has endbd. The defects in the steering gear of the Australian destroyers have been rectified. They answered their holms yesterday.A butler at Lord Joicey’s Montgomeryshire home discovered a former servant escaping through a window. The man dropped a packet of famous canvases which had been cut from their frames. They included Turner’s “Tivoli,” valued ,at .£IO,OOO. Professor David is a’ passenger by the Orvieta, which has arrived at Fremantle. He has completed arrangements for thEnglish publication of a geological memoir of the Shackleton expedition Twelve persons who were bitten by rabid dogs in Paris have been sent to the Pasteur Institute. The cost of invalid and old age pensions in Australia has reached T 1,900.000 per annum. The total number of recipients is 75,942. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, speaking in London, said the King was deeply interested in the co-partnership and housing questions. As chairman in the Duchy of Cornwall, he (Lord Balfour) had been working with the King upon a largo scheme of housing in South London.