VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 62, 11 September 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegttph.--]?r6i» AssocfatiTO.—Copyrlgb^ (Received September 11, 8.45 a.ffl.) SEVENTEEN TOUEISTS DROWNED. ROME, 10th September. A motot-boa.t eaalc in Lake Trasimene, in the province of Perugia, drowning seventeen touriel*. * - (Received September 11, 1.49 p.m.) ROME, loth September,"* The boat on Lake Trasitoene capsized in a squall. Ihe fourteen victims were young girls. Three men »e#e- saved. (Received September 11, 8.45 a.m.) ; A FRENCH RIP VAN WINKLE. PARIS, 10th. September. ; Emile. Gaatratid, a vsae-dreeeer, awoke jwell aftet half a yeaf'n sleep in. the ■Motttpellier Hospital, tie wae fed daily ■ with five putts of milk. MOTOR ACCIDENT. ♦ LONDON^ 10th September. At a cyck meeting in Liverpool & motor-cyclist, going at the rate of fifty naies an hour, dashed into the cr&wd, severely injuring himself and six spectators. COUNCILLORS SENT TO GAOL. : LONDON, 10th September. Refusing to give bail, two members of the Waterford Corporation, Irate been ordered to be imprisoned for * month for ittstiltifig the Mayor. TRANSATLANTIC RECORD LOWERED. LONDON, 9th September. Tlfe Canard iiner Lusitania has made the trip fmm Liverpool to New York and back in eleven, and a half days, thiw beating the MauretaniVs Christmas record of 12 days 4 hours 39 minutes. BRITISH GRAIN CROPS. t LONDON, 10th September. The Times' crop report gives the British wheat crop as 96 per cent., compared with the average yield ; barley as 86.6 per cent; and oats as 83.3 THE SEAMEN'S UNION. ' LONDON. 9th September. Mr. Havelock Wilson, secretary of the Seamen's Unaon, intends to visit Australia to appoint agencies of the Seamen's Union. CLUB-SWINGING RECORD. SYDNEY, 11th September. Jack Beamish has put up a club« swinging endurance record of 100 hours at West Maitland. THE MURDERED STOCKMEN. I PERTH. 10th September. | A punitive expedition has started to search for tho murderers of James Thompson and George Shoesmith, the two stockmen murdered in the North Mttrehison district, SAYONARA CUP. SYDNEY, 11th September. Mr. Dixon, owner of the yacht Sayon. I ara, declares that co fat as he w con- ! cemed there will be no race for the Say&nat-a Cup.