VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED. (Received May 3, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Marine Court that enquired into the grounding of the steamer Brisbane on 11th April lost found that the master, Captain Hutton, had been guilty of reckless navigation, and suspended his certificate for she months from the date of ,the grounding. [The Brisbane, a vessel of 1119 tons gross, belonging to the Melbourne Steamship Company, on leaving Port Kembla with fifteen hundred tons of coal aboard, grounded on a reef at high tide, and remained hard and fast for some hours. After several futile attempts had been made to tow the vessel she came off under her own steam, and returned to port.] AEROPLANE FLIGHTS. • SYDNEY, This Daj. Mr. Hammond made two flights in a Bristol aeroplane. He ascended to a height of four thousand feet. NEW] ZEALAND HURDLE RACER SOLD. SYDNEY, This Day. The New Zealand hurdle racer Pakau (owned by Mr. J. R. M'Donald) has been purchased by Mr. R. Clancy. The price nas not been stated. GOLD DISCOVERIES. PERTH, This Day. Rich discoveries of gold are reported from the Southern Cross district. (Received May 3, 10 a.m.) POPULATION OF MELBOURNE AND SUBURBS. MELBOURNE, This Day. The census returns show the population of the city and suburbs to be 572,589, compared with 496,079 at the 1901 census. (Received May 3, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY UNDERGRADS. SYDNEY, This Day. In spite of tho University Senate's ukase against it, the undergraduates intend to hold the annual commemoration celebrations. [When the decision of the Senate was announced last month, strong speeches were made at a University Union meeting. Some of the speakers compared the decision to a Russian ukase, and denounced tho Senators as hide-bound conservatives, with ideas not in keeping with progress, civilisation, and commonsense.J NEW. SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT. SYDNEY, This Day. The State Parliament will meet on 16th inst. (Received May 3, 9.10 a.m.) QUIET RESTORED. CALCUTTA, 2nd May. Quiet has been restored at Kharan (eeventy-eight miles west-south-west of Kelat), whero mutinous troops killed a chief, who had been giving trouble to the British in Baluchistan. PLAGUE. SYDNEY, 2nd May.' The Burns-Philp Shipping Company has been advised that no fresh cases of plague have occurred at Dairen, Manchuria, for over a month, and the port I is regarded as clean. AUSTRALIAN MEAT. MELBOURNE, 2nd, May. A Federal Government proclamation has been issued prohibiting tho exportation of meat, the soundness of which has not been certified to by an inspector. WRONG AGES GIVEN ON CENSUS CARDS. SYDNEY, 2nd May. It has been found that many persons, chielly women, have given wrong ages on the census cards, and the authorities have issued a warning that such offenders are liable to a penalty of £50. MR ASCHE ROBBED. LLONDON, 2nd May. An expert cracksman at the Garrick Theatre opened the back of Mr. Oscar Asche's (the well-known actor) safe and stole £400. EIGHT HOUR DEMONSTRATION. BRISBANE, 2nd May. The Eight-Hour , demonstration was the largest on record. Chandler won the State Mile Amateur Cycling Championship in 2min 33 2-ssec. GERMAN HIGH SEA FLEET. BERLIN, 2nd May Ths German High Sea Fleet has left Kiel for a month's manoeuvres in the North Sea. AN ART COLLLECTOS'S ESTATE. LONDON, 2nd May. The estate of the late Mr. Charles Wertheimer, the art collector, amounts to about £750,000. After bequests of ■840,000 to each grandchild, the will provides that the residue, estimated at kali a million, shall go to charities, including the Jewish Board of Guardians, which is to receive £250,000. AIRMEN KILLED. ST. PETERSBURG, 2nd May Captain Matsievitch, the well-known Russian military aviator, and his broiher, while making a flight in a Bleriot monoplane at Sebastopol, wej;e flung from the machjne and killed. (Received May 3, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, 2nd May. Lieutenant Rosen was aeroplaning at Mulhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, when he fell from a height of 200 ft and was killed. PARIS, 2nd May. M. Boymaelon was aeroplaning, when he f ©EL a distance of 450 ft into a pond. Hia -injuries are serious.

The adjourned meeting of members of the Island Bay 'Residents wid Ratepayers'. 'Association will .bo held this evening,