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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1912, Page 7

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By Telegraph,— Prew Association,— Copyright. BOOTH MEMORIAL FUND. LONDON, 11th September. The Hon. Mrs. O'Grady has donated £3000 to the Booth memorial fund. SUICIDE OF A JOURNALIST. PERTH, This Day. Mr. S. H. Whittaker, a former chief of staff of the Melbourne Standard, committed suicide by shooting himself. He had sulfered from melancholia since his wife committed suicide in December last. -STATE HOTELS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. PERTH, This Day. In the Legislative Assembly a Bill to increase State hotels was read a second time. (Received September 12, 10.40 a.m.) SAVINGS BANK AMALGAMATION BILL. I SYDNEY, This Day. ' The Legislative Council negatived the second reading of the Sayings Banks Amalgamation Bill, the voting being 22 to 16. RUGBY LEAGUE FOOTBALL. SYDNEY, This Day. The New South Waleß Rugby League will invite an English team to visit Australia next season. HARVEST PROSPECTS. SYDNEY, This Day. The area under oats in New South Wales is 232,790 acres, a slight increase. There are indications of a satisfactory harvest. OBITUARY. .SYDNEY, This Day. Captain Whitton, a member of the Papuan Legislative Council, is dead. CONSPIRACY CASE— AN ARREST. SYDNEY, nth September. Acting on information from Scotland Yard local detectives to-day arrested at one of the leading hotels, a Russian, supposed to have been concerned in a conspiracy case in London. ROLLER SKATING RECORD. SYDNEY, 11th September. Harley Davidson, from scratch, won the mile roller skating race in 2min 52sec — an Australian record. IMMIGRANTS BY THE RANGATIRA. SYDNEY, 11th September. The Rangatira, which arrived to-day from London, brought 1100 immigrants. SUNDAY PERFORMANCES IN THEATRES AND HALLS. LONDON, 11th September. A meeting of the theatrical profession urged the Actors' Association council to oppose , Sunday theatre and music-hall performances. CHOLERA IN JAVA. THE HAGUE, 10th September. Advices from Batavia, Java, state that cholera has broken out in the town. CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE HOBBLE SKIRT. MALTA, 10th September. , A priest at Valetta has been engaged for several days in a campaign denouncing the wearing of the hobble skirts. He was fined 50s and costs for insulting behaviour in ordering a lady out of his church on the ground that she was unbecomingly attired. ROBBERS IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, 11th Sept. Armed robbers attacked the Imperial Treasury at Novo-Tcherkaski, in the Don Cossacks, wounded the officials, and escaped with £2200.