GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 135, 8 June 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

The search for Lieutenant Bogue, the missing airman, has proved fruitless. The Queensland Government is erecting central cold stores at Brisbane, to cost £70,000. Mr. John Dillon is recovering from the effects of the motor accident he sustained last week. ! The French vote for military aviation , has-been increased from £20,000 in 1910 to £72,000 this year. The Russian steamer Reyazan, which went on the rocks off Nagasaki, has been j successfully refloated. In the East Surrey tennis championship. Pockley (New South Wales) beat Ritchie, o—ii, 6— i, 6—4. An aviator named Hirth. with a passenger, aeroplancd to a height of 5000 ft at Josannisthal, a world's record. The International Congress of Postal and Telegraph employees has resolved to establish an international federation. The brigands who have captured Professor Richter. the German antiquarian, demand £16.000 sterling for his ransom. The Swiss Government has deputed several officers to accompany the Australian cadets on their visit to Switzerland. Tbe Australian Wireless Company is raising its <liargc> from 4d to lOd a word. The latter figure includes land I charges. I The Australian Customs Department ] I has decreed that sugar growers employing aboriginals must pay them the same j wages as white?. Three climbers in the. Austrian Alps . ■ were killed by falling over precipices, in- • j eluding Dr. Hittmair. librarian of the • Innsbruck University. j A prisoner travelling from Fremantle to i 1 Sydney by the steamer Karoola un- j I screwed a cabin door and escaped during i the constable's absence. I 1 Though tbe Brisbane gasworks strike has not been officially declared off. all the employees except the union officials have 1 applied for re-instatement. Appreciative notices appear in tho London newspapers of the Ballarat National Eisteddfod. Mr. Morgan, late of the Coldstream Guards Band., acts as adjudicator, c There is a recurrence of the drivers' ,- trouble in Adelaide, numbers of the c drivers union's direction declini. ing to handle goods from Renmark. i vrhsre th* fruitjjTOwsrs" trouble is «ill i„