CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

(.ELIiCiUIO TELEUitAI'B * UOI'YUIGHT.j (Received iiiUj Duy U. 30 a.m.,) THE SfiIEFAMSON, EXPEDITION. jN'ew York, August 17. I Part ol Stet'ansou's .Expedition has returned to .Some, in Alaska, including Jenuess, of Lower Hu-tt, New Zealand. The schooner Alaska left Bernard harbour on July 13th, and readier flersclieJ. 'Island; on July liotii. During IDI.J a detailed survey ol the coast line was completed; the rivey was explored for 75 miles and the geological formation of the country examined, {surveys were made east from Cape Barrow around More Bay and Arctic Sound, by launch and oatioe. the party returning by sled.. The result is that the .Bathurst Island charts have been recti lied. Over 150 islands were charted. The geological results are encouraging, a great copper hold being mapped. J-eiiiiess spent from April till November, 1015, sledging and packing with till' primitive K-kimos in the interior of Victoria island and made extensive ethnological archaeological collection, audi secused phonograph records of their folklore. lIGIME lil'LF FOR PHILIPPINES. Washington, August lii. Ihe Senate has adopted a bill enfranchising 000.000 111011 in the Phi'-n pines, giving them the right to elwct their own Senate. RIGGING THE WHEAT MARKET. New York, August 17. There is indignation in Winnipeg regarding American reports of the damaged Manitoba wheat crop, which is eonlined to the south. The yield for the province is little- below the average and Saskatchewan and Alberta will be able to complement.