GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1208, 17 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Tel«£ra,»h—Press Association—Ooeyriebt STEEL RAIL TEST. r ,l * , „ August IG. In a test for deflection in steel rails at Litligow locally made, and imported rails Rave exactly the same results, indicating that Messrs. Hoskins and Co. are making: a satisfactory article. A STATE CREMATORIUM. rri, n j c L sydnty. August ic. n % BDnrd of Health is recommending tho Government to place a sum ch the Estimates for a Government crematorium. CUSTOMS FRAUDS INQUIRY. - New York, August 16. Tho Federal Government has investigated alleged Customs frauds, involving tho under-valuation of goods imported via Seattle, from Jnpan. It-is-bchcvcd'thKt millions of dollars have been lost to tho revenue. IMMIGRANTS FOR AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, August 10. The officer recently in charge of tho ComnionweaHli immigration work in London states that if arrangements can bo made to bring them out, Australia ■will have no difficulty in securing fifty thousand immigrants 'this year. FLOODS IN CHINA. , Peking, August IG. Floods in tlio province of Auhui destroyed 235,000 acres of rice, and rendered half a million persons homeless. BOUND FOR AUSTRALIA. London, August 15. Messrs. M'Gowen (New South Wales Premier) and G. Fairbairu, M.P., and President of the Commonwealth Employers' Federation, are passengers by tho Zealandia for Australia. A LABOUR SPLIT. Newcastle, August IG. The Miners Federation has resolved (o withdraw from the Political Labour League. A FATAL QUARREL. Brisbane, August IG. A quarrel arose between two men named M'Donald and- Feakin, and Pea kin shot M'Donald dead. Feakin pleads that" ho acted in self-defence.