GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 24 June 1913, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

AFLOAT ON A BALLOON. (Sydney Sun Cables.) I.ON'DON, Jiimi> 17. A Dutch tug picked up two aeronauts in the Kuglish Channel to-day. They were (dinging to the wreckage of their collapsed balloon, which had fallen into the sen about 22 mile* south of the Isle of Wight. STRATHCONA’S MUNIFICENCE.. T.OVDON. June 17. f.onl Slrathconn. High Commissioner for Canada, has given .£20,000 for,the purchase of a site for a drill-hall iu connection with the McGill University in Montreal and for the building of a hall. UNSTABLE BATTLESHIP. The French liattle.ship Charlemagne is reported to have developed serious instability. due, it is believed, to the overloading- of the deck to the extent of several hundred tons. i The batteries also are declared to be. over-weighted. The battleship has been j disked to enable (he naval experts to : thoroughlv examine her. I ' I-