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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1911, Page 8

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, LATE CABLES. By Telegraph.-^Pres* Association.— Copyright. (Received September 14, 3.50 p.m.) WHEAT. LONDON, 13th September. The American visible supply of wheat is 59,562,000 bushels. CRICKET. LONDON, 13th September. In the cricket match Warwickshire v. the Rest of England, the latter declared their innings closed at 631 for five wickets— Warner 244, Fry (not out) 102. Warwickshire has scored 46 for two. The match will be continued to-morrow. CAPTAIN COOK'S JOURNAL. LONDON, 13th September. Two leaves from Captain Cook's auto* graph journal describing his discovery of Australia were sold at auction for £451. The purchaser is offering them to the Commonwealth and New -South Wales Governments for £500. QUEENSLAND'S INCOME TAX. LONDON, 13th September. The Sheffield, HuddeTsfield, and several other Chambers of Commerce have pa-ssed resolutions protesting against Queensland income tax on British goods. "STRIKE COMMISSION. LONDON, 13th September. Testifying before the Strike Commission, Mr. Messenger, chairman of the sectional boards of th& Great Eastern Railway Company, recommended consideration of grievances half -yearly, with final appeal to a Board of Trade arbitrator. RAIN. LONDON, 13th September. Heavy rains have fallen at Bradford and in North Wales, and lighter rain« in the South of England. NEW STEAMER. LONDON, 13th September The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's new eteamer Waimana wa« launched at Belfast. CHINESE TROUBLE. PEKIN, 13th September. 1 Troops are volleying from the walk at Chmgtu. FORTUNE OF TWO MILLIONS. [Bf tBLIGRAWt— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A London cablegram yesterday stated that Sergeant' Major Smith, door-keeper at a music-hall at Cardiff, and Mb brotherfl and Bisters, have succeeded to a brother's estate, valued at two millions, the proceeds of an oil Well in Canada. Mrs. W. Clay, daughter of SefgeantMajor Smith, is the wife of an electrical engineer residing at Birkenhead, Auckland. The fortune is to be divided between Mrs. Clay's father and two sisters, one of whom resides in Austra* lisf, and the other in, Plymouth, England. Sergeant-Major Smith has a family of five children, Mrs. Clay having two brothers and two aiateri.