GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1204, 12 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

liy Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrtehl AUSTRALIAN YACHTING. Sydney, August 11. Tho yacht Sayonara.as challenger, will represent • Victoria in the raco for tho Sayonara Cup. PLAGUE AT SnANGHAL Peking, August 11. Fourteen deaths from plaguo have occurred at Shanghai. ROYAL' PORTRAITS' I-RESENTED. London, August 11. The Kin? is presenting tho Victorian primary schools with 75 portraits of himself and Queen Mary. SYDNEY HORSE SALES. Sydney, August 11. At the horse sales Mr. Tubman, of New Zealand, purchased a Rilbomvood—Tentoot gelding for 10 guineas. . CARLTON HOTEL FIRE. London, August 10. Miss Billie Burke, tho well-known American actress, and Hcrr von Dcrnburg, formerly German Colonial Secretary, were among those who escaped from the Carlton Hotel fire, BOTTOMLEY SHARE CASE. London, August 10. Mr. Horatio' Bottpmley announces that a settlement' has bee arrived at in the case in which judgment for ,£50,000 was obtained against him by Mrs. Curtis, executrix of liie will oi her lather lor the sale to the latter of alleged valueless shares. The terms of settlement are not disclosed. AMERICAN WHEAT. London, August 10. Trade reports estimate.the winter harvest of wheat in the United States at 455,110,000 bushels, and the spring wheat at 203,015,000 bushels. CADETS IN TOWN. London, August 10. , The camp of the Australian cadets has l>een shifted from tho Crystal Palace to Brighton. MR. COGHLAN CONVALESCENT. London, August 10. Mr. T. A. Coghlan. Agent-General for New South Wales, who lately underwent an operation lor appendicitis, is convalescent. CHOLERA IN AN ASYLUM. Paris, August 10. Sixteen deaths from cholera occurred in one night at tho Marseilles lunatic asylum. MUTINEERS EXECUTED. Madrid, August 10. Tho ringleaders of the. mutiny on tho warship Numanun havo been executed at Cadiz. NEW ZEALAND DRUNKENNESS. Sydney, August 11. Archdeacon Boycc attributed tho increased convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand to' a wave, lie positively states it makes no case against NoLicense.