CABLE BRIEFS.
Sydney, April 21. Fog well has challenged Arnst to row early in June for £IOO or £2OO a side, and has put up a deposit. In the champion motor - boat race on Saturday the Fairbanks, 15 h.p. launch, covered an elevenmile course in 3imin 22sec, defeating by 4min the Invincible, a 60 h.p. boat. A fire destroyed the Villa Maria Convent School at Hunterhill. Five sisters and eight pupils barely escaped in their night attire. The Attorney - General states that twelve months of experience of the Liquor Act has confirmed the views held when Parliament was imposing conditions on sporting clubs. The effect has been to wipe out a number of undesirable clubs. The rapid inroads into Australian trade by Germans is causing some uneasiness on the part of shipping firms. Figures have been prepared showing that out of 720,000 bales of wool shipped during the present season, 255,000 have been secured by the North German Lloyds and the GermanAustralian lines. At an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, it was resolved to increase the capital to £ 2,500,000, by the creation of 20,000 additional £25 shares. An aboriginal identity known as “ King Cobbler” has died at Narrabri. He was supposed to be 100 years of age, and had been a strict teetotaller. The fact that he was “ hocussed ” when a young man is given as the reason for his lifelong abstinence. Melbourne, April 21. At the Commonwealth Easter encampment the attendance of the militia was 85 per cent., that of the volunteers 53 per cent, of their full strength. This indicates a serious decline of interest on the part of the volunteers. The Minister for Defence is considering the offering of further inducements to volunteers, also, following the example ot the Army Council at Home, the issuing of a book of songs for use on the march and in camp. Adelaide, April 21. The State Treasurer has announced that he expects the financial year to end with a surplus of nearly ,£200,000.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 23 April 1907, Page 3
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340CABLE BRIEFS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 23 April 1907, Page 3
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