AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10587, 17 October 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright,

(Per Press Association.)

SYDNEY STREET COLLECTIONS. Received October 17. at 9.15 a.m. .'- ,-.. Sydney, October 17. The united charities street collections in Sydney,onlSaturday yielded £18!20.

FEDERAL BANK NOTES. Melbourne, October 17. The printing, of Federal bank notes commences to-day.

CHEAPEB POSTAL NOTES. Melbourne, October 17. The Cape Colony postal authorities have agreed that letters to and from Australia bear twopenny instead ot twopenny halfpenny stamp. ' TO THE ANTARCTIC. Melbourne, October 11. Captain ScotVwas entertained by tho Federal Ministers at luncheon aboard the Terra Nova prior to its departure.'" APPARENT MURDER. Brisbane. October 17. The body of a man named Kelly has been found near Jondaryan with a wound in the head inflicted by a. tomahawk. The 'police have detained a fellow workman (Denton) on suspicion. MINERS' DISEASES. Perth; October 17. Dr Cumpston has been appointed to investigate pulmonary disease amongst miners. A report covering the past ten years states that tuberculosis of the lungs has steadilyjncreased, while pneumonia has. decreased. Amongst 1805 miners examined 33 per centum of tho machine workers were suffering from miners' phthisis, against 7 per- centum- among non-machine miners, '3 -per centum of the truckers, and 24- per centum of dry treatment workers. Lung tuberculosis is present in 28 cases.

The report describes tuberculosis, as an infectious ratlrer than an industrial disease and measures for its eradication should not-stop at the exclusion of the infected from the mines but should include the segregation of . tuberculous persons. Miners' phthisis, says tho report, is solely .due •to inhalation of mineral dust, 'i

THE RICHMOND DISASTER. Melbourne, October 17. Driver Melville lias been committed for jjnal for a breach of the regulations in connection, with the Richmond railway disaster.

DEFENCE OF FOOD ROUTES

Received October 17, at 10'o.w

, Sydney,. October-17. Tho Telegraph, commenting, on ,the cable with reference, to New Zealand supplying half tho mutton to Britain, urges tho' necessity of -defending the .routes of the Imperial food supply and the sources.- This can only bo done by maintaining the efficiency oi tho Navy at tho .highest, pomt.. New Zealand's naval policy recognised this, but the Commonwealth's, clid.iiot.