AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10505, 13 July 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] . (Per Press Association.) FRENCH MONEY FOR AUSTRALIA, i Received July 12, at 11.20 p.m. Sydney, July 12. The French cruiser Kcrsaint has arrived from Noumea to undergo general repairs costing £20,000. .:•.'.' POPULATION OF VICTORIA. ..-.■"' Melbourne, July 12. The 1 population of Victoria at the end ~of last year was 1,297,557, an increase for the year of 24,244, whereof 17,113 'is the excess of births over deaths. Received July 13, -at 8.55 a.m. ;....-:. Melbourne, July 13. :, The population of Melbourne at the end of last year was-562,300. Victoria e has 14.26. people to the square mile. - - THE WIRELESS MESH. Fremantle, July 12. The Otranto has arrived. She kept in wireless touch with England for 1500 mil'esj and spoke 23 shore stations and 45 vessels wirelessly during the voyage, learning full • details of the JohnsonJeffries fight. ..... ANEW PIGMY RACE. ■Received July 13, at 10 a.m. s Sydney, July 13. Mr Shortridge, a member of the British Museum expedition in New Guinea, reports the discovery of a race of pigmies'4ft high. There are a timid and harmless people.

KILLING IRISH BLIGHT. Melbourne, July 13. The Government Pathologist successfully experimented in purifying potatoes affected with Irish blight. > He dried the tubers in a kiln at a temperature sufficient to kill the blight spores without diminishing the seed value. GUILTY OF PERJURY. Melbourne, July 13. All six men accused of perjury in the Ronald-Harper case have pleaded guilty, and sentence was deferred. ■ ■ A ■ COLONIAL INVENTOR; Received July 13, at 9.30 a.m. Sydney, July 13. Robert Young, a Sydney electrician, has high hopes of selling to the War Office a wireless-controlled torpedo for £150,000. WIFE-DESERTERS. Sydney, July 13. The Assembly assented to a motion that it was urgently necessary to amend the law relating to deserted wives and children.