CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13335, 25 March 1911, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Eight Hon. L. V. Harcourt, Secre-tary-for the Colonies, will preside at the House of Commons dinner' to Sir John Fuller on April 6. Owing to the foot and mouth disease-, the importation of English cattle into Ireland has been prohibited. The Orange and Maitland districts arc the latest additions to the Irish blight area in' New South Wales. A Mcblourne cable states that 1 Fynch has been acquitted on the charge of murdering Steanc. Advices from Rhodesia state that an attempt was made on the life of Le.wanika, paramount chief of Barotseland. The Administrator minimises the incident, but admits that some indunas endeavoured to depose Lewanka. Fifty Barotse police, with'a Maxim, have been scut to Scsbcko. Speaking to the Berkeley (California) University students, Mr Roosevelt deplored the non-production of men of learning and genius throughout the United States. Ho warned His hearers that the ultimate test of a nation’s eminence lay in art, science, and literature, and not in material achievements. ’ The Labour Party in the House of Commons has decided to protest against expenditure over a military display at the Coronation, to the exclusion of the representation of the civic side of the national life. On the strength of legal opinion, the New South Wales Minister of Mines believes that it is necessary to obtain Parliamentary sanction before he is able to proceed further in the matter of a State coal mine.