CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13521, 1 November 1911, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES.

; 'Mr Jackson, manager of the Union Company, Was entertained ,by the members of the Steamship .Owners’ Federation in Sydney prior to taking an extended holiday. , ,■ -i The of the Federal Parliament, including Visitors and functions,; is less than a penny a member per day! General Sir S. Forward is a passenger by the Orvieto, which Iras arrived at Fremantle! He is proceeding to New Zealand. The keels of three 22,500-tori Eussian battleships have J been laid 'down at Nikolaieß, __ . --r----■As a result 6f the census, Queensland gaSns arid Victoria loses’ one seat in the Federal House. iOoloriel Seeley’has outlined a scheme for brihging.Britain-upto a high'standard in aviation, especially in regard to speedy monoplanes. One hundred; officers will be trained as observers and'pilots;' Four, pictures,-valued at .£2OO, which iwere on view at the Society of Women ■Painters’ exhibition at Sydney, -were destroyed by scratches and cuts. Deliberate -vandalism is apparent, The steam er Pakeha .arrived. at Sydney yesterday. She has 1128 immigrants, also 14 of the crew of the wrecked Papanuw