CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9398, 19 March 1909, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received March 19, 10 a.m. Loudon, March 18.

In order to test the practicability of employing motor cars in warfare the Automobile Association conveyed a battalion of Guards of fall strength with baggage from London to Hastings (70 miles) in 3)4 hours. Two hundred and eighty-six cars and 28 lorries were employed. The column was seven miles long. Only a few minor mishaps occurred. The Duke of of Sutherland presided at-the for the purpose of inaugurating a scheme for the Forth Clyde Canal. The estimated cost is £17,000,000. The Canal would enable the construction of shipbuilding and repairing yards in Loch Lomond, which is twelvd-miles outside the possible range oij gunfire. The work would employ 30,000 workmen for a period of nine years. The Duke of Argyle and Lord Brassey supported the scheme.

The valne of Lord Button's estate has been provisionally returned at a. million. The deceased gave directions that his spine and the spinal marrow of his neck be severed before his body was placed in the coffin,, and that his heart should be placed in a separate vessel in the coffin.