VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1912, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

— . ♦ -. By Telegraph.— Pre6s Association.— Copyright. (Received January 30, 9 a.m.) PRICES OJ? HAIR-CCT AND SHAVE. SYDNEY, This Day. The hairdressers have decided to increase the price of a. shave to 4d and of a hair-cut to 9d, afi from sth February, with corresponding concessions to employees. (Received January 30, 8 a.m.) CAMBRIDGE-OXFORD BOAT RACE. LONDON, 29th January. Many experiments are being made with $16 universly crews. Arbuthnot (Cambridge) has replaced D. C. Collins (Wellington), and Oxford is trying C. Baillieu (Melbourne) instead of K. T. Hamilton { Adelaide). TRACES OF A MISSING STEAMER. LONDON, 29th January. Several lifebuoys and belts belonging to the missing "Wilson liner Genoa have been found at Berwick. [The Genoa is a steel-screw 6teamer of 1942 tone, built in 1890.] FROSTS, FLOODS, AND AN EARTHQUAKE. LONDON, 29th January. Seventy degrees of frost have been recorded in many parts of England. The floods are abating. Aji earthquake •hock "has been fel>t vi Loch Lomond. AQUATICS. SYDNEY, 29th January. An inter-State ladies' four-oared race, the first occasion in Australia on which such a race has been rowed, in clinker boats with eliding- seats, provided a hot oontest and a great finish, Queensland defeating Victoria by a couple of feet. COUNT YON AEHRENTHAL. VIENNA, 29th January. The Emperor Francis Joseph has refused to accept the resignation of Count yon Aehrenthal, Foreign Minister, in the hope that the latter's health will improve. NEW "WIRELESS STATION. MADRID, 29th January. , King Alfonso opened a Maxconi wireless station erected here, and exchanged messages with Messrs. Borden *nd Pelletier, Premier, and Postmaster-General respectively of Canada. A BABY ABANDONED. PARIS, 29th January. After a motor car had passed through Alzonne, in the Department of Aube, a baby was found on the roadside. It had apparently been left there by someone in the car, and with it was a sum of £640 in bank notes. There is no cluo to the identity of the child or those .who abandoned it.