CABLE NEWS. AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 763, 28 December 1908, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

[by blectbio telegbaph — ooprr.mHT j . [PHB FBIIB ASSOCIATION.] • ALEXANDER ON TENNIS. Melbourne, Dec. (24. F. B. Alexander, the United States "player, on the eve of his departure lor Europe, expressed tiie conviction tnat America would secure the Cup next year. Jtte considers tihat Brookes, Wilding, Dunlop, .Tarter, itice, and Heath, are equal to the best six. in or America. He regards 'j^unlop as one of the finest doubles ill the world. DANGER OF A LOOK-OUT. Sydney, Dec. i£s. Tne combined unions at .tfroKen Jlijli nave lniornied the Proprietary VAOuipany tuat it was intended to strongly advuse the men against aceepciug lower wages in any of the mines whion had not signed tne agreement arrived at between the Mining -nan&gers' Association and tne combined unions, and that the action or tue .rroprie&ary in ottering reduced wages irom January 1, it persisted in, would be regaraed as a lock-out. A Si" fit xxiAX oJiUl'jii n i vi|Mi,i,|<' (Ueeived uec. X6, a.lo a.m.? Perth, Dec. Uo| # A jockey named mcUougali, wno was unseateu anu raiaJiy injured wnust iiujuig in oaturuay s races, was aiscover^u to be wearing an electric Oattery,>ai>aoxe or convoying an electric suock to nis horse tnrougn his spurs. A JL/icjAbiltUUiS lUitjNADU. Sydney, l>ec. Z6.. A tornado at Uoits Jttarbour destroyed tne Uat-honc L-nurch and dainageu a numoer oi other buildings. \ - lhe. vocal number or iivos lost m the pearling umaster was 61, including o wnrtes. 'ivacer is running short in Jtiobarc. There is only 4U uays' supply in the reservoir. . john if. Sheridan, the actor, well known tor jiis periormance of the part of " vVidow O'Jlrien," died suduenly at Newcastle on 1! riday night. a railway quaancycue, containing ten persons, wno had been doixng their onristmas shopping, came into collision with a lignt engine near Benalla {\ lctoria;, on l'riday. Six of the passengers were injured, two — a brother anu sister named Dowd — severely.