SEARCH FOR GOLD.

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

SEARCH FOR GOLD.

TWO REPORTS. By Tolecraph.— Press Association.— Copyright (Received September 10, 11.10 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. A party of gold diggers from Tanamil report that there is not enough payable gold there to compensate for the hardships endured. PERTH, This Day. 4. prospector near Mount Egerton ha* discovered a reef bearing soz of gold to the ton. ASTRONOMER-ROYAL. MR FRANK DYSON APPOINTED. Bj Telear»pb.— Presi Association Copyrlg&t, (Received September 10, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 9th September. Mr. Frank Dyson, AstronomerRoyal for Scotland, has been appointed Astronomer-Royal, in succession to Sir William Christie; who has retired. [Frank Watson Dyson, F.R.S., As-tronomer-Royal, Scotland, since 1905, was born in 1868, and educated at Bradford Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1889 to 1905 ha was secretary to the Royal Astronomical Society, and from 1894 to 19"05 chief assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. He has contributed many papers on mathematical and astronomical subjects. Sir William Christie has been Astronomer -Royal since 1881. Ha was born in 1845.] CABLE RATES. SIR W. HALL-JONES INTERVIEWED. "A MONSTROUS PROPOSITION.'^ By Telegraph. -Press Association.— Copyright, LONDON, 9th September. Sir William Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, when interviewed on the^ question of cheaper cable rates, said it was a monstrous proposition that Great Britain and the Dominions were unable to reduce % tho charges on an All-British cable— the messages over which were sent throughout under our own flag— without the consent of foreign Powers. The consent of the signatories of the Lisbon Convention, he contended, was only necessary in international matters affecting foreign interests and messages passing through foreign countries. The denial of deterred rales to code messages was undesirable, as it was almost impossible accurately to define what plain language in a, cablegram meant. Tho better plan would be tho reduction of the ordinary charge to cightpence a word, and tho imposition of double rates for urgent messages. Thus, he thought, would the best results be secured for the Pacific cable. [As staled yesterday, the Pacific Cabla Board proposed to reduce tho rate for & p/ain language message, delivered within forty-eight hours, to Is 6d a word. ■All the Governments concerned approved of the proposal, but Mr. Batendale, London manager of the Pacific Cabls Board, says the Canadian line has been considerably improved so far as accuracy is concerned, and that the British, Post Office authorities have declined to sanction deferred rates, on the ground that they have not been approved by the International Convention.]