VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 46, 23 August 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

ly Telegrapti.—Prefi* As9oClation.--Copyrlght. (Received August 23, 8.40 a»m.) MS. SEIFERT IN LONDON. LONDON, 22nd August. Mr, George Seifert, who ie backing Fogweli for his coming sculling race against Barry* has arrived in London. [A difficulty arose in connection with the stakes for the race, Mr. Seifert, who is financing Fogweli, being on tour in India when the second deposit became due. Satisfactory arrangements were, however, made. 3 (Received August 23, 9.40 a.m.) HOT WEATHER. LONDON, 22nd August. There hav# been a hundred and fortyfive rainless days in London this year. The drought has now broken. INTERSTATE LACROSSE MATCH. SYDNEY, 22nd August. In the lacrosse match between Victoria and New South Wales, the former won by eight to five. A CHASE ACROSS COUNTRY. SYDNEY, This Day. A policeman arrested a. man at Dalledoo after an. exciting chase of eighty miles. Both men were on motor cycles. BISHOP GRIMES RETURNING. SYDNEY, This Day. Bishop Grimes, of Christchurch, has arrived here from Fiji. H» was shocked on hearing the news of Cardinal Moran's | death. , MELBOURNE HARBOUK IMPROVEMENT. MELBOURNE, This Day. The State Cabinet has adopted a I scheme for deepening the entrance to ! Port Phillip, at a coat of £80,000. (Received August 23 4 9.40 a.m.) VICTORIANS VISITING IRELAND. LONDON, 22nd -AtigUßt. The Hon. John Murray (Premier of Victoria) and Sir J, W. Taverner (AgentGeneral) are visiting Ireland as the guests of the Earl of Meath and Mr. A, BirrelT, Chief Secretary for Ireland. ESPERANTO CONGRESS. BRUSSELS, 22sid August. A Congress of two thousand Eaperantiste is being held at Antwerp, in* eluding six hundred British. KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION. PARIS, 22nd August. Two workmen at the Mendon Aerodrome who were carrying a tube of compressed hydrogen were killed by its explosion. (Received August 23, 10.45 a.m.) , .VESSEL LAUNCHED. LONDON, 22nd August, IThfl Scoramba has been launched at Troon, in- Ayrshire.