NEWS BY CABLE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16326, 23 August 1913, Page 11

NEWS BY CABLE.

" Times.”—Sydney “ Sun ” Special Cables. LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE. LONDON, August 21. A message from Ottawa says that a National Live Stock Exchange has been formed in Canada with a capital of 2,000,000 dollars. It will spend 600,000 dollars in breeding remounts for the supply of the Canadian militia and afterwards the British War Office. (Received August 22, 6.15 p.m.) FIRE IN A MUSIC HALL. LONDON, August 22. A fire at the Empire Music Hall, Chiswick, was caused by the fusing of an electric wire. The firemen’s efforts to quell the outbreak were unavailing owing to thoir inability to lower the safety curtain. The damage is estimated at £16,000. AN ATTEMPT ABANDONED. Lily Smith started to swim across the Channel this morning and covered five miles, when she abandoned the attempt owing to the coldness of the water. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. Lord Sydenham warmly advocates a Channel tunnel. Lord Lamington prefers a girdle of water to protect England from invasion rather than a steel structure capable of rapid repair. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. The 6kull, lower jaw, teeth and legs of a rhinoceros, twenty thousand years old, were unearthed in a garden near Ealing. NO INFORMATION. BRUSSELS, August 21. The Colonial Minister interrogated in Parliament, said that he was unable to confirm the report that a great goldfield had been discovered in the Congo territory.