GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 209, 2 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

In Sydney last night .Tack Howard defeated Bill Turner in three rounds. Mr. John Murray. Premier of Yictoria, has sailed from London for Melbourne. Good rains in the. agricultural areas of Westralia have made the pastoral and wheat prospects good. The Federal Government has accepted the tender of a Chicago firm for an automatic telephone at Geelong. In the Irish golf championship the Hon. M. Scott was beaten in the sixth round by Munii by 7 up and C> to play.

A British airman named Lueks aeroplaned from Weston-Supcr-Mare to Cardiff, circled the Town Hall, anJ returned to Weston.

The National Gallery has purchased from the Countess of Carlisle Oossart's famous picture, "Adoration of the King" for £40.000.

The Sydney theatrical hands threaten to strike at the opening of the Melba opera season owing to the delay in the Arbitration Court proceedings. All the ruling chiefs are supplying elephants and men for the great pageant and procession to welcome the King, to Delhi. There have been good rains at Delhi. Lord Gladstone, the Governor-General, was cordially welcomed in Rhodesia, thus dispelling some anticipations that tho reprieve incident would affect his reception.

The late typhoon in Japan was the worst on record. It caused immense damage and great loss of life, chiefly through n tidal wave driven before the gale. The N.S.W. Marine Court has exonerated both captains in connection with the collision between the steamers Warrimoo and Archer in Newcastle Harbour on June 22. At Melbourne the examination of junior cadets is at a standstill, owing to the doctors demanding half-a-crown a head for the work, a price which the Department consider excessive. Senator Pearce (Federal Minister for Defence), in reply to an accusation that he has been showing preference to imported officers, states that in future he will give preference to Australians. The Sydney Metropolitan police authorities declare that since constables are given every second Sunday off, there has been an- increase especially in sly-grog selling. Nevertheless Mr. Flo'wera (Aoting-Chief Secretary) is determined to adhere to the principle.