GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 284, 25 August 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(DT TELEGEAPII —rRESS ASSOCIATION—COrrRIGHT.) ASIATICS IN SOUTH AFRICA. (Rec. August 21, 9.10 p.m.) Pretoria, August 24. The Transvaal Assembly has agreed to a Bill which meets tho Indian Association's original objections," but has rejected tho. demand for admission of now Asiatic .immigrants on the basis of the same educational test as Europeans. THE PRICE OF BREAD. Melbourne,' August 24. The price of .the four-poundloaf has been reduced to s£d. • A'FATAL MISTAKE.' ' Sydney, August 24. Two children named Moffit, living in North Sydney, drank chlorodyne instead of cough mixture. Both are de.id. THE LATE MR. CRICK. Sydney, August 24. Mr. W. P. Crick, ; wliose death was announced yesterday, had been in ill-health for some .time. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. Sydney, August 24. Arnst, who will row Webb for the sculling championship, sailed by tho Ulimaraa. His trainers will follow six weeks before the race. A WASHINGTON MILLIONAIRE. New York, August 23. Mr. John Gates, a Washington millionaire, is constructing a golf course, a racecourse, and a concrete automobile track, to cost over a' million pounds. WANGANUI COLLEGE. London, August 13. Tho Rev. J. L. Dovo lias been appointed master of the Wanganui Collegiate School. [This appointment' has already, been announced in The Dominion.] FOOTBALL. Sydney, August 24. Telegraphic communication with Melbournp i 3 blocked, and no news has been received of. tho continuation of the football carnival (Australian gamo).'