GENERAL CALEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1197, 4 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CALEGRAMS

Uj Tclei:r&ph—Press ABBaclaUoll-Oocrtlclil SCHOONER WRECKED, (Rcc. August 4, 0,35 a.m.) Sydney, August 3. News has been received of the wreck of the schooner Aola in the Solomon Mftiuli. All bauds were saved. BABIES KILLED BY THE HEAT. , London, August 2. : A hundred ami fifty-eight babies have died in London from enteritis within a week, owing: to the heat.

CO WES REGATTA. \ London, August 2, The yacht Germonia won the Kaiser'! ( Cup at Cowes regatta. EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER, • Cairo, August 2. News has been received from AddiJ Abbeba, in Abyssinia, that twenty tons of gunpowder exploded at (lie railway works at Diredaona, killing eight persona and injuring many others. SOUTH AFRICAN CATTLE FEVEII, Capo Town, August 2. Tho Government Veterinary .Surgeon ban discovered a method of rendering cattle immune from Unst Coast fever, which has been responsible for wholesale mor« talily for several years past. SCANTY PAY. • i Syflney, August 3i Giving evidence before the Short ago of Labour Commission, a woman stated that sho received threepence each for making nightgowns, and hud to find her own cotton. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. Sydney, August 3, The warships Cambrian, Psyche, Pyfs« mus, aud Pioneer have tailed with time* expired crews for Colombo, where new crews will joiu. DEMAND FOR EUCALYPTUS. Sydney, August 3, A sudden demand has arisen for ciiealyp* tus oil, owing jo its um> in treatment uf metallic sulphides. Steps arc being taken to largely develop the output. 'A RISING.BIRTHRATE. Sydney, August 3. The birth-rate in thn metropolitan area during July was the highest since July, ■1897. AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY CLUB, Sydney, August 3. Tho Select Committeo appointed by the State Parliament to inquire into tho affairs of the Australjan Jockey Club has lapsed owing to the prorogation of Par. liuuicut.