VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 25, 9.40 a.m.) MR. LLOYD GEORGE. LONDON, 24th January. Mr. Lloyd George, who has been suffering from an affection of the throat, has departed for Italy. OBITUARY. LONDON, 24th January. Captain Ban, the well-known yachtsman, is dead. OTTAWA, 24th January. Mr. J. E. Schwitzer, who was recently appointed chief engineer of the Cana-dian-Pacific railway consequent on his brilliant engineering achievements for the company, has died at Montreal of pneumonia. OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA. ADEN, 24th January. There has been an outbreak of cholera at Perim, an island near the mouth of the Red Sea. (Received January 25, 10 a.m.) ADVANCES FOR HOMES. ADELAIDE, This Day. The sum of £1335 has been advanced under the Advances for Homes Act. OUTSIDE THE PALE. PARIS, 24th January. The Academy of Sciences, by 30 votes to 28. has resolved against the election of Madam© Curie to its membership. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT. SYDNEY, 24th January. The New South Wales Parliament has been prorouged until 21st March. VICTORIAN HARVEST. MELBOURNE, 24th January. The wheat harvest is coming up to expectations, and a record yield seems assured. Two million bags aro lying at the railway station awaiting transport. IRISH BLIGHT. MELBOURNE. 24th January. Irish blight continues to spread among ths potato crops. Thirty-lour districts have now been quarantined. Spraying is being largely carried on. -