VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

«« By Telegraph.— Presi Association.— Copy right. (Received April 21, 9 a.m.) LONDON BANK OF AUSTRALIA. LONDON. 20th April. The balance-eheet of the London Bank of Australia, Ltd., shows that transferable deposits amount to £608,444-; other- deposits, £4,301,476 ; cash investments, £2,278,649; bills, £3,943,855. A SUCCESSFUL SYDNEY JOCKEY. LONDON, 20th ApriL At tie Epsom meeting Huxley, the Sydney jockey, rode four winners, including Mushroom, who won the City and Suburban Handicap yesterday. -FRUIT-GROWERS' STRIKE. ADELAIDE, This Day. The Renmark fruit-growers' strike has extended to Port Adelaide, where the drivers and shunters have refueed to handle non-union consignments. GREAT STORM IN BLACK SEAMANY WRECKS. SEBASTOPOL, 20th April. There has been a great storm in the Black Sea, and many wrecks. (Received April 21, 10 a.m.) MANUFACTURERS' WEEK IK SYDNEY. SYDNEY, m 20th April. A procession in connection with Manufacturers' Week was very successful. There was an excellent display of" all classes, of locally-Tnade articles. BIG ESTATE. SYDNEY, This Day. The estate of Mr. John Clark, grazier, of Boggabri, has been sworn at over £197,000. Mr. Kerr Clarke, late-private secretary to Lord Islington, is one of the executors. The whole estate has been left to the "widow and children. AUSTRALIAN NATIVES 1 ASSOCIATION. SYDNEY, This Day. The Australian Natives' Association Conference approved the referenda., also a uniform gauge for the trunk railways for defence purposes. THE ROYAL VISIT TO DUBLIN. . LONDON, 20th April. The Corporation of Londonderry, composed of Unionists and Nationalists, has decided to send a deputation to Dublin to present the King with an address of welcome on the occasion of their Majesties' visit. SHORTAGE OF LABOUR. | BRISBANE. 20th April. Official reports show that there is a great shortage of labour in the sugar districts. The Port Douglas district is arranging to indent British, labourers at twenty-five shillings a week. i BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, 20th April. j The Bank of New South Wales'© deposits 1 for the quarter showed an increase of £2,000,000, making' the increase for the year £5;600,000._ THREE MEN KILLED AND THREE! INJURED. MELBOURNE, 20th April. A blasting accident occurred at the Victoria Proprietary Mine, Diamond Hill. Thomas Brookes and Karl Brooke were killed and three others were seriously injured. COLT PURCHASED BY A NEW ZEALANDER SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. E. J. Watt, of New Zealand, paid '£375 for a Malster— Red Flag colt. RONALD-HARPER PERJURY CASE. MELBOURNE, This Day. On giving bonds of £100 each to be 1 of good behaviour for fifteen years, Siddeley, Ballingall, J. Paton, Bartling, Bxedon, and Batchelor, six of the seven men sentenced to two years' imprisonment in connection with the RonaldHarper perjury case, were released. VICTORIA'S OAT HARVEST. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Victorian oat harvest totalled 9,699,000 bushels from 392,681 acres. A WATER- FAMINE. PERTH, This Day. There is a water famine at Menzies. Water is selling at £1 per thousand gallons, after fifty miles of cartage. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED, t BRISBANE, This Day. The sentence of death passed on the workman W. Denton, who murdered his mate, George Kelly, at Jondaryan in October last, has been commuted to one of life imprisonment. [The jury strongly recommended that mercy be extended to the accused, on the ground that' the crime was committed in a fit of temper while he was in drink.]