VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 5, 6 July 1910, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

Bj Telecraph.— Pren A»soci»tlen.— Copyright (Received July 6, 9.30 a.m.) ■FLOODS CAUSE MUCH DAMAGE. ADELAIDE, This Day. Floods in Kangaroo Island caused great damage to newly-sown crops. Numbers of the residents have been compelled to abandon their homes. [Kangaroo Island, at the mouth of the Gulf of St. Vincent, was the first settlement in South Australia. The area fit for cultivation is not large.] INSANE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, This Day. Tha report of the Inspector-General of Insane shows that cases treated during 1909 totalled 5934. (Received July 6, 9.50 a.m.) PAPUAN MAIL SERVICE. SYDNEY, This Day. Burns, Philp, and Co. have purchased the steamer Pynnont. She is to be employed in the Papuan mail service. [The Pynnont, built in 1902, is a wooden vessel of 213 tons gross. She j belonged to the North Coast Steam j Navigation Company, Ltd.] (Received July 6, 11.35 a.m.) ROUGH WEATHER— THE WARRIMOO. I SYDNEY, This Day. The departure of the Warrimoo has I been delayed on account • of the rough •weather. VICTORIAN BUTTER AND MEAT. MELBOURNE, sth July. The Victorian butter exports last year amounted to 16,211 tons, valued at £1,815,632, as compared with 9408 tons, valued at £1,081,600, for the previous year. The meat exported totalled 1,097,432 carcases, valned at £713,330, aa compared with 652,058 carcases, valned at £423,844, for the previous year. SALE OF PICTURES. LONDON, sth July. Mr. Alexander Young's collection of Dutch pictures has been sold at auction at Messrs. Christie's rooms. They reaiised £153,892. Mrs. Young gave 4600 guineas for, Isi'ael's "Shipwrecked Fishermen," which she intends to present to tho National Gallery. [Josef Israel was a genre-painter of tho Belgian school. Born in 1824 at Broningen, he studied painting at Anihterdam under Kruseman, then went to Paris, where he worked in the atelier of Picot.] BRITISH SHOP ASSISTANTS. LONDON, vsth July. Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, has introduced a Bill forbidding shop assistants to work more than sixty hours a week, or after 8 o'clock on more than three evenings a week. Provision is also made for a universal weekly half-holiday. Mr. Churchill promised that if the Bill was not opposed it would be passed during the present session. WIRELESS ON STEAMERS. BOMBAY, sth July. The recent anxiety in connection with the breakdown and consequent delay of the steamer Trieste has caused an agitation in India for wireless telegraphy installations in all passenger steamers. The erection of public wireless stations at Aden, Karachi, and Ceylon is also demanded, in addition to that at Bombay, which is already working. (Received July 6, 10.15 a.m.) EXPORT DUTY ON HIDES, SKINS, AND PRODUCE. MELBOURNE, This Day. A convention of Chambers of Agriculture carried a resolution strongly protesting against an export duty on hides, skins, and other produce. AN AUSTRALIAN OFFICER. LONDON, sth July. Captain Tickell (late naval commandant in Victoria) has assumed his duties in connection with the AustraJian destroyers.