VARIOUS CABLES. GREYTOWN NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

GREYTOWN NOTES.

« By Telegraph.—Prcii Association.—Copyright. (Received September 10, 9.5. a.m.) A COURT-MARTIAL. LONDON, 9th September. Lieutenant Allan Sutor, of the Royal Artillery, is being court-maTtialled at Tynemouth for publishing in August last a pamphlet criticising alleged araiy irregularities. (Received September 10, 9.50 a.m.) COTTON-GROWING IN RHODESIA. CAPETOWN, 9th September. The Cotton-growing Association is developing the cotton-growing industry in Rhodesia. It is acting in conjunction with the Chartered Company. An expert advises tho farmers. LIFE-SAVING SOCIETY. LONDON, 9th September. Mr. Henry, of the Life-saving Society, who is to establish branches of the Society in Australia, has sailed by the steamer Macedonia. COMMONWEALTH DESTROYERS. LONDON, 9th September. The Commonwealth destroyers Yarra and Parramatta have been commissioned. They have sailed from Glasgow for Portsmouth. DUTCH SQUADRON. ' ' BRISBANE, 9th September. The Dutch squadron of warships which is making a tour from its headquarters at Batavia, Java, has arrived. It will visit various ports in the Commonwealth. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. SYDNEY, 9th September The dogs of Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition have arrived in good condition. A veterinary surgedu is to test them before they are transhipped to the Moana. AEROPLANING. LONDON, 9th September. M. Chez, a Peruvian aviator, ascended 8790 feet in a monoplane at Issy, a- suburb of Paris. [Thisi constitutes an altitude record, the height attained being 321ffc greater than that reached last week by M. Movane.] NATIVES KILLED AND EATEN. SYDNEY, 9th September. News has been received from the Bismarck Archipelago (Geiman New Guinea) that two natives employed on a plantation near Wilhelmshaven were surprised by a horde of savages and killed and eaten. A punitive expedition has been dispatched. EXPLOSION ON AN AMERICAN WARSHIP. NEW YORK, 9th September. The explosion on the first-class battleship NoTtl! Dakota in Chesapeake Bay was due to an explosion of oil fuel. The damage to the vessel is not serious. Three men were killed and nine injured. MURDER OF A BARMAID. SYDNEY, 9th September. The man Walter charged with having " murdered his wife, a barmaid at the Cafe Italien: in Bond-street, on 15th March last, has been found not guilty, on the ground of insanity. The lodge ordered him to be detained during the Governor's pleasure. [The murdered woman went under the name of Stark. On the afternoon of the murder Lovett entered the bar and fired shot after shot. Tho woman fell bleeding from' several wounds. The man then turned the revolver on himself, and inflicted a minor wound. Stark died almost immediately, exclaiming, •'Look after my girl." The murderer had been drinking heavily. He appeared to have- been jealous of his- wife.] (Received September 10, 10.7 a.m.) SUICIDE OF A BOY. BRISBANE, This Day. A thirteen-year-old boy committed suicide by taking poison. AEROPLANES COLLIDE. VIENNA, 9th September. At Neustadt, Bohemia, the Archduke Leopold Salvator's aeroplane collided with that of Karl Warchalowski. The latter fell, and sustained a fracture of the thigh. VIRTUE IN TOBACCO. LONDON, 9th September. Apropos of several cases of spotted fever (cerebro-spinal meningitis) in London, tho British Medical Journal has mentioned that tobacco-smoking is a preventive, and that it proved an efficient antidote in similar cases in France. BRITISH ARMY MANOEUVRES. LONDON, 9th September. The army manoeuvres havo begun. There are 70.000 troops taking part. They are spread over an area of a nundrecl miles in the south-west of England. Aeroplanes and wireless telegraphy are being utilised. CHOLERA—A CASE IN PRUSSIA. BERLIN, 9th September. There is a cholera case at Freiburg, on the left bank of the River Elbe. The sufferer is a bargeman from Hamburg.

(BT TELEGRAPH—SPECMr. TO THE POST. , GREYTOWN, This Day. On Thursday night a social was held in the Working Men's Club here, when a most enjoyable time was spent. During the evening a handsome gold watch was presented to Mrs. W. Robb, in recognition of her services to the club, together with Mr. Robb, during the past two years. Mr. Robb suitably replied. A testimonial was also presented to the secretary, Mr. Loasby, in recognition of his services as secretary and treasurer of the club. Prizes won at the recent tournament were also presented. Mr. W. Thompson, as president of the club, occupied the chair.

Tho ordinary general meeting of tho South British Insurance Company, Ltd., jviH be held Ai Auckland, pa 13th October^