GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 213, 2 June 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

dY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGH' PLAGUE-INFECTED RATS. (Rec. June 2, 0.53 a.m>) Sydney, .Junoi. 1. As a result of fumigations -in Melboura , and Sydney, nearly'a 's^g^tf'ra6' , Twerl destroyed aboard the. steamer' Innaminca.considerable number were plague-infected: MANSLAUGHTER. •Sydney, June 1. Bear, a steerage cook on the steamei Somerset, who in April.Uatany. : stabbbd ,t sculleryman named Richards; was cbrivictec of manslaughter, ■ and' was l 'sentenocd :'to twj years' imprisonment, with hard •labour. ' . YACHTING: SHAMROCK IV. London,, Sir Thomas Lipton's .ryapKt ••Shamrock' IV easily won the Maiden Race from: Southend to Harwich,-beating the White'Heathii- and . Nyria: .. l "■ V-'.*'";'"--'^v GOLF. , London, May, 31. E. Lassen beat H. ..Taylor, ,in the final of the amateur golf championship; by ,7 -up and 6 to play. .. ' MISS AMY CASTLES' TO' RE-VISIT ' AUSTRALIA. London, May 31. Miss Amy Castles, the Australia}! ist, is arranging to visit Australia noxt year. MANY. FIRES AT BROKEN HILL. • ■"■ ■•Sydney, Jnne l.' ' There has been an epidemic of fires" at Broken Hill on three Saturdays, making nineteen for the month of May, and seventytwo since the year. " AUSTRALIAN, SQUADRON. London,'-May, 31.. -The cruiser Gibraltar will take a'now orew to Australia for the cruiser > 'Challenger,' , and half a crew for the Prometheus.'-". 4 '. {-J". OBITUARY! ; ' Sydney, June ; 1. The death is announced. of the Pcv. Mr. Maclnnes, a minister of, the Presbyterian Church at Ashfield, |nd an^x-J&xlerator.