AUSTRALIAN RESOURCES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13979, 12 May 1913, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN RESOURCES.

ADVERTISEMENT IN BELGIUM. 1 . ' LONDON, May 4. ;; Preparations are being made for an ' exhibit ion of Australian produce in Am-, sterdam from June to October. The High ‘Commissioner's office ".has! also arranged for the display, at the 1 Ghent Exhibition, of a scries of biograph pictures illustrative of Australian life and resources.

ROYAL ACADEMY. A MEDIOCRE SHOW. LONDON, May 4. The Royal Academy pictures this voar go to make up a mass of mediocrity. Promising painters appear to have shunned Burlington House. Mr John Lavery’s Royal Group is unsatisfactory, the figures appearing incongruous in their setting. Mr George Lambert sent only one portrait, and that of no particular merit. GOLF IN ENGLAND. SUCCESS OF MISS PARBURY. LONDON, May 4. Miss Nancy Parburv, of Sydney, won two competitions at the Prince’s Ladies’ Club at Mitcham, Surrey, with a record score of 77.. She was on the plus one mark. DO YOU VAC.? SOCIETY PLEASURES IN SWEDEN. ~LONDON, May 4. There is a smallpox: scare in Sweden. Everybody is being vaccinated. Fashionable guests are invited to “five o’clocks,” the doctor arrives and vaccinates them, and dinner follows.