GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8187, 31 July 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

By Te.'egraph—Press Association—Copyright.

LONDON, July 29. Miss Fanny Durack, the Australian swimmer, won a hundred yards' race at Manchester. Her time was 71 4-ssec—a ladies’ record in Britain.

The Australian cadets have arrived, all well.

PARIS, July 29. The 15 per cent, charity tax on the small public gambling casinos and watering places yielded .£290,000 in 1811.

MELBOURNE, July 80. In tbo ten years to the end of 1910 the Federal Civil Service has increased by 17,317 officers, and salaries by £932,•102.

PERTH, July 30. An old age pensioner named Patrick Leahy has died at the age of ninetythree'. Ho ,was a prominent participator in the Eureka Stockade fight at Ballarat. SYDNEY, July 80. The German Government has granted wireless concessions to stations ' which link np the German possessions in tho Pacific. , Tho Australian Gaslight Company has declared a dividend of 9s per share. Though tho police are dubious about the naval deserter’s confession in connection with the Clapham Common murder, they have cabled the story to Scotland Yard, and propose to send the man to England. The annual report of the New South Wales Cricket Association shows a credit balance of £4OBO, which is a record. In the billiard match between Reece and Inman, tho scores are:, Reece 10,501, Inman 9378. Reece has accepted Williams's challenge to play the English billiardiets now in Australia 18,000 up for £IOO a-side, conditional on crystalate balls being used. (Received July 30, 8.40 p.m.)

SUVA. July SO,

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of William Greenland, secretary of the Fiji Fruit Company and Brpdzxak, Limited, for alleged embezzlement. Greenland, accompanied by his wife, left by the Zealandia on Saturday for Auckland.

(Received July 31, 0.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. Thirty-two English and foreign aeroplanes nave entered for the Salisbury Plain contest.

(Received July 31, 1.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 30. The Government Statist estimates that there are 2,503,000 acres under wheat this season, or 36,556 more than in. the previous rear. _ _ ' Frederick Layton, a enop . manager at Carlton, has been remanded on bail lor a week on a charge of deserting his wife in Now Zealand, pending the arrival of a police escort. Layton declared he never had wife or family. (Received July .30, 10.40 p.m.) LONDON, July 30. During manoeuvres at East Marted forty territorials were sheltering by a wall when lightning struck and ' threw them to the ground. One was killed and several had to be sent to hospital. .