CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13336, 27 March 1911, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Tlie adherents of the ■Church of Christ at Preston, assisted by their Melbourne co-religionists, erected, complete, in one day a weatherboard church of seating 300'. A service was.•"held"Hi the building the following day. A motion was submitted to the Chamber of Manufacturers’ Conference at Launceston in favour of closer trade relations between America and Australia. .Several members ■'were of opinion that the motion was trenching on the realm.' of international: -politics, wherewith manufacturershad ho concern. The motion was-with drawn. , - • The-, personality ,of Joseph Henry Houldsworth, racehorse-owner of England, has been proved at .£327,507. He bequeathed ,£20,000 to charities, mostly in Scotland, and £SOOO to James Eyan, the Newmarket trainer. . . An order has been issued prohibiting the exportation into Australia.’ of "'a. long list of native birds, 'their plumage, skins, and eggs; also forbidding-the importation of the plumage and skins of many rare birds, including those from New. Guinea and adjacent island's The Mount Morgan mine has declared a dividend of one shilling, payable on April Ist. N Mrs Scott (wife' of Captain Scott has made an appeal for',£6ooo to complete ~£50,000, and so relieve the Antarctic,, expedition from financial anxiety. The Home - Office has appointed Cpmniissioners to (investigate ,police statements concerning the arrest of Morrison (who is lying under sentence of death for the Gla.phani Common murder), and to consider the compensation .claim-, by Sydney Street property owners. , The... South -African Senat.e .megatiyed a Bill providing for the /stoppage of Sunday working in mine batteries. At'.a meeting at Wellington yesterday afternoon of sympathisers with . the Irish Home Eule movement, a committee was set up to arrange a suitable reception for the : delegates 1 , arriving from Britain shortly, and t’o -futther their ■interests by immediately inaugurating collections in aid of the Irish Baiiihmeiitary party’s funds.