GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 137, 10 June 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

The Brisbane gas strike has been officially declared off. Prince Arthur of Connaught has opened the Pageant of London at the Crystal Talace.

A boat containing two men capsized off Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Both were drowned. Mr. Jas. Field has arranged to sign the articles on behalf of Fogwell for his match with Barry. Mr. Quinlan has engaged Madame Julia Caroli. of Sydney, for the Australian tour of his opera company. The long-protracted drought in the Gilbert Island has completely broken up, and crop prospects are bright. The Victorian Government Bacteriologist says that rat leprosy does not imply identity with human leprosy. The carters' strike in Adelaide is extending, and the brewers' carters have declined to deliver to certain firms. The Federal Executive has adopted the navy rates of pay and ages of retirement based on Admiral Henderson's report. A proclamation has been made by the Commonwealth Government giving "effect to the ten per cent tax on bank notes. Fifty thousand immigrants from Europe went to Canada in April. American immigration is decreasing in volume.

At the Croydon tennis tournament in the third round R. S. Barnes beat Pockley, tbe New South Wales player, 6 —2, li—2. Mr. Fisher has declined the Honorary Doctorships of Laws at Oxford, Cambridge. Glasgow, and Birmingham Universities.

j Over 20,000 applicants for tickets have been received for Mr. Lloyd George's Bir- j mingham meeting in connection with the Insurance Bill. The South Australian Government | Statist estimates the State's wheat yield at 24.000.000, and the average at 11.75 1 bushels per acre. A movement is afoot to arrange some,' special demonstration throughout the I Commonwealth at the precise moment the j King is crowned. The hairdressing trade in Sydney is j ; shuk. which tbe union secretary attrito the fact that people think that ; higher rates are in tone. ' | A party of Federal legislators, aceom- | panted by Lieutenant-Governor Murray. I has left Brisbane on a visit to Papua to j examine the resources of the possession. Heavy gales, which have been raging 'on the Australian coast since Thursday, have increased in fury. Shipping, especially ort, the been