CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13341, 1 April 1911, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Owing to tiie plague, strict quarantine ' precautions are being adopted on arriving New Zealand vessels at Melbourne. Manv valuable records have been discovered in the ruins of tlie Legislature Li nrary' (destroyed by fire) at Albany, New York State, unscathed. Tim documents covering the history of the War .of * 1812 are intact. A tornado destroyed the) settlement of Gainsville, Alabama. _No lives were lost, but the crops were ruined and the forests - levelled for miles. A hundred farmhouses were wrecked. . , The inquiry at Ottawa, into the wreck of the Sechelt disclosed that she was unseawortiiy. Witnesses- asserted that she was unfit to weather a severe gale. The first consignment of oil fuel for the Australian Navy, of 100 tons, was despatched by the Commonwealth Oil Corporation. ’The supply is practically unlimited. In connection with the trotible with the wine growers in France, a compromise is being " whereby a special label is provided for Aube champagnes. ■ Thf» Dreadnought Monarch was launched with the boilers, funnels, and bridges in- ■ stalled. Germany has been omitted from the aeroplane race, which is now restricted to from Paris to Lieo-c, Brussels, and London, thence to Paris. ?