CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13337, 28 March 1911, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

The New South Whies Government are considering a scheme of prison reform, including rewards for good conduct and the supplying of reading matter. A record consignment of auples has been shipped to England from Melbourne. The Sydney Marine Court found no blame attachable to anyone in connection witn the wreck of ■ the steamer Rosedale on January -12. The evidence indicated that the mishap was due to the- exceptionally Targe rollers causing the vessel to bump in the river. Tho Spanish steamer Steiemhre has been stranded at St. Martin’s, Scilly Islands. Mr, Bona.r Law's meeting at Bootle was interrupted by a man with a grievance against the Liverpool Corporation. He chained himself to the radiator, in order to prevent his ejection, hut, ultimately produced the key, and \yas released. . The estimated net yield from. the liquidation of property belonging to religious orders in France will he T1,200,000. : The ordnance factory at Cherbourg is busy-iii'"the manufacture of an improved shell, the effects of .which are described as terrible. Dr. Jameson is recovering from a rupture of an internal blood-vessel. Signor Giolitti has formed a Cabinet. The portfolios of Foreign Affairs, War, and Marine remain unchanged. The Kaiser, oh the ’occasion of the launching Of the battleship Kaiser, promoted Herr Hollweg, similarly as in the case of Prince Bismarck, from the rank of Major to -Major-General. Two men were fined for participating in the'buckjumping show riot at Sydney. ' At the annual dinner of the Canadian Club in London Major-General Lane, acknowledging the toast of “The Navy and Army,” advanced a plea, for conscriptory service, saying that Tin helievdd invasion to bo not only possible, but. probable. The Governor-General of the Commonwealth lias, by proclamation, prohibited the importation of goods in sacks of over 2001b in such cases where the goods have to be carried on tho backs of workmen. The regulation will- take - effect next August.