VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 27, 1 August 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

8# !fesefer*ph.-"Pre*i Aamifttien,— copyright, (Received Augu&t l, 8.35 a.m.) EXPORT OF MINERALS. SYDNEY, This Day. ( The value of the exports of silver, silver lead, copper, tin, and coal from Nw South Wales during the last lialfyeai affldunbd. to £3,653,000, an increase of £679,000 as compared with the same period last year. SALE OF TASMANIAN LAND. LONDON, 31st August. At a meeting of shareholders of the Van Dienieiis Land Company, the salo of the company's property to Mr. Baillieti, of Victoria, was ratified. _ It Was announced that the administration of the new company would be under an Australian Boa-ra. (Received August 1, 9.45 a.m.) BREARLEY BOOKED FOR AUSTRALIA, LONDON, 31st July. The Marylebone Club has invited Brearky, of Lancashire, to join the team for Australia. It ib understood that Bfearley will accept the invitation. [Brearley k probably the best of Eng* land's fast bov/lcrs.] (Received August 1, 9.55 a.m.) ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS. SYDNEY, This Day. ( During the last two years 11,520 assisted immigrants arrived in New South Wales. FRtJIT DESTROYED BY FROS I *. SYDNEY, This Day. Heavy frosbsj ill the Windsor district have largely destroyed, the winter crop of citius 1 fruit. RAILWAY WAREHOUSE BURNT. PARIS, 31st Jtuy. The Northern Railway Company's warehouse i afc Saint Oven, which was stocked with electrical material, has been burned. iThe damage amounts to 1,000,000 francs (about £40,000). AMERICAN WOOL DUTIES. WASHINGTON, 28tli July. The Insurgent Republicans, uniting with tho Democrats in the Senate, carried a compromise on the Wool Bill, placing the rate at 26 per cent, on raw wool. OBITUARY. MELBOURNE, Thfe Day. Mr. Ciissen, a member of the State Assembly, is dead. (Received August 1, 2.20 p.m.) SWIMMING. LONDON, 31st July. Toldi, a Hungarian, won the breast' stroke championship in 2toin 42eec. Finlay was third.