CABLE NEWS.
(By, Electric Telegraph—Copyright) .(Per Presß Association), LONDON, Sept. 17.
The luncheon to the ofEcsrs of the Discovery in London was a brilliant success. Sir Markham, who presided, announced that Captain Scott had been invited to visit Balmoral for some days. The Geographical Society's dinner; to Captain Scott and officers, at which 300 were present, was heia in the Criterion Hotel in the evening. I SYDNEY, September 17. , The British warships were gaily dressed in honour of the birth of an heir to the Italian Throne and fired a royal salute. The Liguria waß illumiDatedto-. night, and as the 9 o'olock gun was fired the Earyaius blazed'but in brilliant illuminations, her hull, spars and funnel being limned by myriads of incandescent lamps. ■■'! •-:.,. ■;•■ :... MELBOUHNS, September 17. A meoeiigof SOOO persons convene*! by the TronworlsiVr^' Uuion pas-id » onftnimou.i 'resohuioo protesting ag-jinss rho iicii-ju of tte B:,nte Government in sending 10 fccothnd for a sand dredge, thu3 oopriving the local engineering firms and skilled mechanics of a contract which would have lessened the existing depression in the iron trade.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7912, 19 September 1904, Page 2
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