GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7848, 10 July 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

( By Telegraph—Praas Association—Copyright A PHILANTHROPIC VISITOR. LONDON. July 7. Sir John Kirk, secretary of the Ragged School Union, and a prominent member of several other philantlrnopio institutions, has sailed for Australia in the Orient liner Osterloy. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. LONDON, July 7. There has been, an outbreak of foot and mouth disease at Ilarlington, Middlesex, through mediate contagion from Hounslow. A NEW ZEALAND APPEAL CASE. LONDON, July 7. In the New Zealand, appeal case, Allardice v. Allardioo, which comes from Dannovirke and relates to the interpretation of a will, judgment was reserved. The respondent’s counsel was not called upon. A YOUNG MAORI LONDONER. LONDON, July 7. The first Maori boy bora out of Now Zealand lias been christened, in White City. Re has been named Kanancihaua, meaning ’‘Coronation." MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS TO CHARITIES. LONDON, July. 7. The late Mai or Foam, who built a church at Stockport, at the cost of ,1190,030, bequeathed .£50,000 to charities. SYDNEY SHEEP SALES. SYDNEY, July 8. The sheep sales have closed. Mir Bnsor, of Now Zealand, paid 40 guineas for a ram. from Sir Samuel McGaughey’s flock. NEW SOUTH WALES GOLD. SYDNEY. July 8. The New South Wcdss gold yield for the laet six months amounts in 88,5820 t fine, valued at .£376,274.. There is an increase of 36500 z os compared with the same period last year. GOOD RAINS IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, July 8. Good rains have fallen over the whole. State, the heaviest in the Riverina. The outlook for the season is excellent. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LEASES RAILWAY. ADELAIDE, July 8. The Commonwealth Government hai completed arrangements to lease from South Australia the Port Augusta-Oodna-datua railway, which will be of service in opening up the Northern Territory. , WIST AUSTRALIAN LIVE STOCK. PERTH, July 8. The stock returns for the last year show good increases of horses, cattle, and sheep.