GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15185, 3 July 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Preas Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

ADELAIDE, June 30. The members of the British Medical A*sociaiicn are entering inlo negotiations with a view to obtaining local autonomy for Australia. .

LONDON, June 29.

Mr Fisher and the Commonwealth staff said good-bye 10 Senator Pearce and Mr Batchelar, who are starting for Siberia. VANCOUVER, June 29. The persistent rumour that Sir William Whyte will succeed Lord Strotbcona B - ; given credence by the statement that SirW. Whyto will leave for England for . an indefinite period. .• MELBOURNE, Juno 30. (Received June 30, at 7.20 p.m.) ~ Tho sum of £15,000 has bean paid in ■«'■ stamp duty in respect of the, late Sir ". Malcolm M'Eachcrn's Victorian estate. MELBOURNE, June 30. \ (Received July 1, at 0.20 a.m.) Four nwn were overtaken by a train . ■ on a bridge at Geelong to-day. Two ej-,.; them jumped into the river, and one waa ■'> drowned. The others escaped. NEW YORK, June 29. Mrs Laura Akip's suit for a share in " Lucky Baldwin's" fortune was d»> ■ missed. She alleged that she was Bali win's daughter. . LONDON, June 20. The White Stair steamer Zealandic, to tho Australian and New Zealand eermo, Ins been launched at Belfast. Harvard baat Yale in the boat race by two and a-nalf lengths. Yale won the Freshman's Ra:e by two lengths. Mr Lennard Lewis's " Railway Viaduct " has been hung on the line at the Pittsbure Interr.s.tional Exhibition. NEW YORK, June 30. ! ' Sam Lingford, the coloured boxer, knocked out Fitzgerald, Philadelphia'! white hope, in five rounds. BUFFALO, June 30. Six persons were killed and 30 injured through the collapse of a pumping station. Tho victims were the machinists who wero at work. SYDNEY, July 1. In tho Aacmhly Mr Waddell (exTieasurer), commenting on Mr Justice Higgins's decision in Federal industrial ca«6,. called the judge "a sentimental humbug." MELBOURNE, July 1. Sentence of death was recorded against a v coloured man who was found guilty of burglary with wounding. The Federal Government has decidedto experiment with automatic telephones at the small exchanges. LONDON, July 1. (Reoehed July 2, at 5.5 p.m.') Sir Wilfrid Lawier bis announced that . Lord Strathcona will shortly resign the position of High Commissioner for Canada. The Earl of Rosebery cpened the Thackeray Centenary Exhibition in the Charter House with a, brilliant'analysis of the novelist's genius. Three_ seamen were asphyxiated on the battleship Superb as the result of an explosion of coal gas in tho bunkera. TRIESTE, July 2. (Received July 3, at 0.10 a.m.) . There has been another case of cholera aboard the Oceania.-