CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13333, 23 March 1911, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

11.M.5. Drake replaces the Powerful as the flagship'on the Australian station. Sir George Reid has informed Mr Batchelor that it is proposed to hold a great International Exhibition in London in .1915, when the Imperial Conference meets again. A strong advisory committee has b'een formed, with Lord Stratlicona as /president. ■ :>-J The American Consul'has returned to New York from Formosa. 'He denies that Japan is fortifying Formosa foe as a base for operations .against tha.-.Philip-pines. , : -Stevenson, the hilliardist,. is willing to play Gray in May. ■ The Australian destroyers have left Melbourne for Sydney. The King will invest the Prince of Wales at Carnarvon Castle on July Pi. The Bishop of Bangor, representing the Nonconformists,-will conduct the 'Service. There arc gloomy reports as to the rapid spread of the- Irish blight in many districts in New South Wales..