CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13338, 29 March 1911, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Roland Vernon, of. jthe, Colonial Office, will accompany ■Lord -Dehniau, the new Governor-General, to Australia, It is reported that Earl- Grey, GovernorGeneral.of Canada, has abandoned his visit to the West Indies, and the Actic. journey planned for the autumn, owing to lack ol time before the Duke and Duchess of Connaught’s arrival. Mr Austen’ - Chamberlain, under medical advice, takes a few weeks’ holiday on the Continent; The King Edward -Memorial Committee has adoped Mr MacKemial’s scheme. The proposed billiard match, between Gray and Stevenson has collapsed. . The Marine Court of Inquiry at Sydney, into the wreck of the schooner Australia, on February 22nd, exonerated the master ■■(Capttin Hadley) from all blame. The body of a man. supposed to be one of the crew of the missing yacht Mavis, has been washed ashore, says.a Melbourne, cable. ■ ' The new Aberdeen liner Themistoclcs.. a fine up-to-date vessel, 516 feet in length, 62 feet team, and with a displacement’ of 20,000 tons, brought 878 passengers to Melbourne.