CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13422, 8 July 1911, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Hindi ays have started for -the Continent. Sir .1. Kirk, secretary of (he Ragged ‘cbool Union, has sailed for Australia ij he Osterly. Obituary.--Rev. James Adams, one of .ho oldest Prc.sbvtcriau ministers, and r. pioneer of the western districts of New South Wales, The Bedford Literary Institute, was dc--iru’.is of putting up to auction a copy Fox’s “Book of Martyrs,” which hat! been nvucfl by John Banyan. The Atlomey.Tcneral intervened, but Sir Rufus Isaacs inis now decided that the Institute has a. right to sell the book. The Erslcincvillo cadets emulated the Yictoriau example, refused to obey their officers, answered impertinently, and entic’ ny thro win ir mud and stones. They .ah o stoned a policeman who was called in. The steamer Providence, which has av•ived at Sydney from Rotnmah Island, reports that a measles epidemic, which lin.: icon responsible for 400 deaths, has bee ; 'radicated. A second farm at Hounslow {England i has been infected with foot and mouth disease. King George has decided that the Corvintiou medal shall rank immediately after the late King Edward's Indian Durbe.•• medal.