VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1912, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received September 10, 9.40 a.m.) TWO DROWNING ACCIDENTS. SYDNEY, This Day. Two children named M'lntoeh fell into a creek at Gcsford, and were drowned. A father and son _ named Williams were drowned at Merimbula through a. boat upsetting. COUNTER LUNCHES. SYDNEY, This Day. The hotelkeepers have decided to use all legitimate efforts to bring into line the few who still give counter lunches, which it was recently _ decided to abolish. Strong feeling is shown against those whe- will not comply with the abolition decision. (Received September 10, 10.26 a.m.) 1 H.M.S. CHALLENGER. LONDON, 9th September. The cruiser Challenger has arrived at Plymouth from Australia. MEAT FOR GERMANY. BERLIN, 9th September. The Cologne Gazette advocates the importation of frozen meat on a broad basis, and emphasises the satisfactory results that have accrued in England from this policy. YAQUI INDIANS ON THE WAR. PATH. NEW YORK, 9tb September. Reports from Arizona state that the Yaqui Indians have taken to the warpath, and that a band of a hundred raided llealito (Texas) and 'Colonia. AN AVIATOR'S DEATH—MEMORIAL FUND. LONDON, 9th September. The fund for a memorial to Mr. Lindsay Campbell, the Australian airman killed some time since, has been closed. The amount collected was £280. PRICE OF BUTTER IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, 9th September. The price of butter dropped a fur ther 6s per cwt, to 120s for selected and 108s for prime. INQUEST ON BODY FOUND IN A TUNNEL. SYDNEY, 9th September. At the inquest on the body of the man Macnamara, which was found in a tunnel on the Illa\yarra railway on 16th August, under circumstances suggesting foul play, a verdict was returned of death from injuries received through falling from a train, there being no evidence to show how deceased fell. The coroner said he was incliried to believe there had been no foul play. (Received September 10, 1.22 p.m.) FRANK WOOTTON FINED. LONDON, 9th September. Frank Wootton, the ex-Australian jockey, was fined for motor-cycling through Epsom at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour, to tho dangeu of pedestrians.