CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13340, 31 March 1911, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

A cyclonic storm is raging at Cooktown, Queensland, with heavy rain and high seas. Shipping is held up and the river is in flood.

Giving, evidence before:-the 'N.S.W. Education Commission, Professor. David said he favoured a free university. It was the innate right of everyone in the country, who was worthy of the highest education the country could give, to get that education free. Richard Heath, an ex-member of the N.S.W. Assembly,- has beau awarded £10!) damages for libel • against the Sydney Morning Herald, the alleged libel consisting of the publication in the report of a public meeting of. a certain statement which plaintiff denied making.

The N.S.W, Industrial Court has ruled that a sectional trade’s holiday is not a public holiday. The ruling is the outcome of a claim that men kept working during the building trades’ celebration were entitled to overtime pay. Mr Borden has not resigned, but continues to lead the Canadian Federal Conservatives.

Georges Scott, a French painter, of Scottish descent, contributes a portrait to the forthcoming Paris salon, of King George in his Field-Marshal’s uniform, mounted on his favourite charger, with Lords Kitchener and Roberts following, and with the Black Watch in the back ground, and the Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock interworked.