AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
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' ANGAMOS DISASTER. SANTIAGO, July 9. It is officially stated that the Angamos death list totals 209. PEER’S SON AS MINER. OTTAWA, , July 10. A message from Montreal states that Liard Stonehaven's son, lan Bail’d, aged 19, from Oxford, has arrived. He had been labouring in the mines of Northern Canada during his vacation. He believes mining opportunities are greater in Canada than in Australia. V A LORD’S SON. MONTREAL, July 10. lan Baird, son of Lord Stonehaven, is here spending a vacation working in the mines at Amos, Quebec, and Timmins, Ontario. He' has/no desire to settle in Australia and prefers Canada because lie said this is a country of opportunity. U.S. WHEAT YIELD. NEW YORK, July 9. A Kansas City message states that a heavy movement of wheat from Kansas’ is beginning with the second greatest crop recorded being handled. The yield is 170 million bushels, and is second only to the 1924 crop of 180 million bushels. The quality of tlie new wheat is said to be high. Apprehension caused by recent rains proved groundless. Most of the wheat is graded number one, weighing from sixty-one to sixty-four pounds per bushel. CANADIAN STORM DAMAGE. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) TORONTO, July 10. Following a heat wave, Toronto to Regina lias been swept by fierce electric storms. Major M. O’Halleran and two soldiers were killed by lightning at Petawawa Military Camp and a dozen knocked unconscious.
In Ottawa- District a big log boom was broken in Gatineau River, Hull City being plunged into darkness. There was enormous damage to wheat crops by hail in Saskatchewan. The aurora borealis tied up telegraphic communication in mid-west Canada, Winnipeg being isolated on Monday.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1928, Page 2
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