Special Telegraphic.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2211, 5 September 1910, Page 4

Special Telegraphic.

THIS DAY. In Rugby interprovlucial games Otago, after having the best of the game, was only able to draw with Canterbury, six points each. Auckland defeated Taranaki for the Ranfurly Shield by 16 points to 9. Wellington ran up 60 points to Southland's nil. At the Association game Otago defeated Canterbury hy 1 goals to 3. The Dunlop Road Race from Timaru to Chirstchurch was won by W. Arnst, with 25min start, Chaprman (Napier) 2, Donald (Talmerston) ;■!. Arnst won by 10' yards only. Smith, from scratch, covered the distance in shrs 30min 27 Lssecs, or seven minutes better than the winner. One thousand acres on Brooks farm, Mount Royal, was swept by a fire, the glare of which was visible from Dunedin. Brooks lost 150 sheep and Mount Royal station 50, while the fences and improvements were destroyed. Jaben Holssn, a fisherman from Moeraki, left last Tuesday in his boat to fish and has not since been heard of. It is feared he lost his life in the heavy gales. The completed statistics for 1909 show a decrease in the births, deaths, and marriages for that year. The consumption of alcohol also showed a decrease. The body of a well-dressed woman, identified as Mrs May, Wellington, was found near the Esplanade, Gisborne. She was wearing a wedding ring and gold brooch set with sapphires and diamonds. Reid Smith, a settler of Tologa Bay, who was endeavoring to cope with the typhoid fever epidemic among the Maoris contracted the disease and died on Saturday morning, At the Australasian Amateur Boxing tournament at Auckland the results were : Bantam, Hogan (Queens land). Featherweight, Read (N.S.W). Lightweight, Licy (N.S.W). Welter, Watehorn (Palmerston North). Mid* nleweight, Matthewson (Dunedin). Heavyweight, Pooley (Auckland). Dredging returns for the week total 006/5, Otago 11, with GO ounces, heading the list. CABLE NEWS. London, September 3. Twenty five fresh eases of cholera (thirteen fatal) are reported from Italy and six from Erzerum ( Turkey) four fatal. The British Association has accepted an invitation to meet in Australia in 1!)14. The Shipbuilding Employers Federation has notified the Newcastle rivetters there will be a national lockout. Fifteen tuousand boilermakers are affected and thirty thousand others will be idle. Three thousand milliners hands struck in Paris, then wrecked shops and had a fierce struggle with the gendarmes, using hat pina and scissors and one hundred were arrested. Four thousand cabmen have struck at Calcutta as a protest against the bylaws. The Pope tins closed the university of Perugia becau.se the students cheered the Ttalian King when visiting there. A new college is boing opened at Assisi. Bandits held up a train in Colorado but the train staff resisted and one robber was shot, while an engineer was wounded. The robbers fled without any booty. A valuable alloy called duralumin which is as stroug as steel and only slightly heavier than aluminium has been discovered, it can be rolled or forged. The ship Westpoint bound from Charlestown to Glasgow, was burned and foundered oil Newfoundland. A boat containing 16" was picked up, another 12 are missing. In a boxing contest at Ballarat Rogers, of Melbourne, was sent heavily to the floor by a local man named Copparweight. Rogers died without recovering consciousness. Perth Sept. 3. A counterpart of the English Beck case is reported, the victim having the same surname. Edwin Beck was sentenced to three months on August Ist, charged with uttering a cheijue. He was able to prove he was not the man and was liberated, but was almost at once re-arrested for uttering another cheijue. It was then found this offence happened- while Beck was in prison, Sydney, Sept. 3. Ernest Jamesr, supposed to be a New Zealandcr, was killed at a sawmill at Gilgandra. Brisbane, Sept. 3. A rich discovery of wolfram is reported from the Dingo Mountains. A rush has set in.