VARIOUS GABLES.
By Telegraph.— Press Association.- Copyright. (Received July 25, 10.20 a.m.) N.S.W. MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS. SYDNEY, This Day. Manufacturing establishments in New South Wales increased by 165 last year, and employees increased by 3111. (Received July 25, 10.20 a.m.) SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS. PRETORIA, 24th Jnly. The Union Parliamentary elections will be held on 16th September. (Received July 25, 9.50 a.m.) NEW STEAMER. LONDON, 24th July. The Cunard Steamship Company's 18,000-ton steamer Franconia has been launched at Wallsend. NEGRO LYNCHED. NEW YORK, 23rd July. A negro, who was surprised entering a white woman's room at Belton, in Texas, shot the arresting constable dead. The mob burned the negro at the stake. DEATH OF A BOXER. 23rd July. Walter Simonds knocked out George Johnson in a boxing contest at Leicester. Johnson subsequently died in the hospital. BENEFICIAL RAINS. OTTAWA, 24th July. Beneficial rains have fallen in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, 23rd July. Cholera is raging in the Crimea. There have been 456 deaths in a week. THE MURDER IN A TRAIN. LONDON, 24th July. The appeal of Alexander Dickman against his conviction for the murder of Mr. Nesbit, cashier at the Widdrington Colliery, Northumberland, in a Newcastle train has been dismissed. ALLEGED BREACH OF ANTI-TRUST LAW. NEW, YORK, 23rd July. The Department of Justice has prosecuted at Baltimore sixteen firms manufacturing enamel hardware, for an alleged breach of the anti-trust law. OBITUARY. - BRISBANE, 24th July. The death of Mrs. Kidston, wife of the Premier of Queensland, is announced. CANADIAN IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. OTTAWA, 23rd July. The Government has decided that immigrants landing after October next must be possessed of £10 each, as a provision against the severe winter they will have, to face. [An influential deputation representing the leading steamship lines running to Canadian ports waited on Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime. Minister, early last month, and urged relaxation of the immigration regulations, which provided that each immigrant must be the possessor of £5. No change was made, however, as the general opinion is that Canada can now afford to look for quality rather than quantity. One man and his family were recently deported because he made a false declaration of his intentions regarding work. He declined to follow agriculture and became a charge on the municipality.] PIONEERS OF EMPIRE. LONDON, 23rd July. At a meeting at Lord Londesborough's residence in Regent's Park, Lord Dundonald presiding, the "Pioneers of Empire 1 ' (self-appointed colonial emissaries;, gave a report of their mission in the provinces on behalf of Imperalism and industrial reorganisation. PORTUGUESE • AND PIRATES. PEKIN, 24th July. Tho Chinese authorities are asking the Portuguese to hand them forty pirates captured at Colowan (Macao), which island was recently occupied by tho robbers, who were afterwards driven out with some loss. A SLIDING VILLAGE. PARIS, 24th July. Owing to the undermining by quarrying) of a picturesque hillside the village of Tille has been evacuated. It is sliding into the river Marne. } KING'S CORONATION. i v LONDON, 24th July. It is announced that representatives J of the Dominions will take a prominent 1 part in the pageant at the King's coroj nation. j AN ASSASSINATION. i CONSTANTINOPLE, 24th July. The Director of Customs at Uskub has been assassinated. BRAZIL'S DREADNOUGHT. LONDON, 24th July. Brazil's Dreadnought will carry twelve 14in guns. She will cost £2,900,000. [On the 6th inst. it was announced that Brazil had ordered a 32,000 ton battleship from Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Elswiclc]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 21, 25 July 1910, Page 7
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