GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1105, 19 April 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

(By Telegraph—Press Association Copyruhtl ft IRISH BLIGHT. (Rec. April 19, 0.20 a.m.) Sj/dney, April 18. The potato growers' conference passed a resolution requeuing the Government to offer a reward for the discovery of a remedy for Irish blight, in view of, its alarming spread. NEW-SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT. Sydney, April 18. \ Parliament has been further prorogued j till May 9. ' 'AUSTRALIAN AERONAUT. M (Roe. April 19, 0.20 a.m.) Sydney, April 18. Hammond, the aeronaut,' flew seven miles in ten minutes in a trial flight. Ha was unable to make a public flight owing to the wind. HIS LAST JUMP. (Rec. April 19, 0.20 a.m.) Sydney, April 18. Skylark, the holder of the long-distanoo jumping record, won the water jump at the show, and immediately dropped dead, A NEW ZEALAND ARTIST. (Rec. April 18, 10.45 p.m.) Paris,. April 18. Mrs. Rolls Fisher, a New Zealandei I has a picture hung in the Old Salon,, . BURNED TO DEATH. ' s Melbourne, April 18. A fire destroyed a building at Tylden, - on the Little Coliban River. Two men named Fitzger.ald and Angland were sleeping on the premises at the time... Fitzgerald was burned to death, and Augland severely iijured. RICH FIND OF GOLD. Sydney, April 18. There has been another rich find of gold at the Long Tunnel mine, Gundagai. Half a dish of dirt yielded 270z. df gold. CHINESE LABOUR. Brisbane, April 18. The North German Lloyd steamer Coblenz brought one hundred and two Chinese labourers for Tahiti. SMALLPOX. Melbourne, April 18. Strict precautions oro being taken in. connection with the smallpox outbreak on the P. and O.- steamer MtiO'Km. On ofrival here she will bo quarantined and-' • the passengers vaccinated. Passengers , who landed at Fremantle have been ordered to report themselves. •