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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 98, 30 August 1923, Page 6

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Hi:'. ’ HOME AND FOREIGN. . s ln*Bß Association— Copyright AusN.% Cable Assdciation. (Received 1.35 p.m.) London, August 29. First-clasg cricket was a i washout to-day. Heavy rain prevented the ball being bowled in six matches l ,, namelyy at Lords, the Oval, Manchester, Brighton, Portsmouth, and Wor- , cester, .. ■ 1 The Daily Telegraph’s Rom© correspondent " Says the Telina. •’ murders have excited violent indignation •, in ■ The Greek Government pror foundly deplores the incident, and ■; promised to do all in - its power to obtain satisfaction. ' Cairo, August 29. A syndicate of the largesti cotton-: growers in Egypt, having already induced the Government to intervene in the ’cotton market in the hop© of inflating the 'prices, are now; plan-. , -ning to starve the market for the i ixle!sfeH > ew weeks.»'The syndicate althiM; the Egyptian crop . this year is over - thirty per cent, less jfehau last.' It is - anticipated the American crop will be seriously curtailed. ■ ■■' ';■ • ’ 1 *' \ • "'""'lf-* (Reuter). London; August 29. Do Yalera has been elected. Sjtfa . ' - ■ - 4 ■ . Millie AND NEWS. ' ; M , , ;• Sydney, August 29. 11| Farmers’, ' |;||r|a,. announce: 4 the first wireless broadcasting service, ‘ features of wiJilbe hi&h.-class musical entertainments by the principal thea:t|ical promoters, a summary of the > news from the Herald and the Evenling News each day, and also reports advising settlers out-back of fluc- . tuations, in the markets and the fjtock exchange. The effective rang© of the station wiff be four or five hundred miles .from Sydney. : A number •of ' rural dwellers are seeking receiving sets for listening in. It is expected the firtrfc programme will be broadcasted early in December. ' ii. ff ‘ r -JpL-: — ■

u SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 'it, . . Sydney, August 29i At the Science Congress, Dr. Tilyard pointed out that the Pacific was Apt a unity biologically. In tracing its' biological history Dfc, Tilyard said that in addition to a eucalypt Dr. Merrill had recently found a New Zealand fern and a New Zealand ranunculus, of the Sam© species as that- now growing in New Zealand, .at a height of seven thousand feet on the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines.LOST ON THE ALPS. Qeneva, August 28. Sir. Henry Hayden, director of the geological survey of. Indfla, and two Sides have been missing on the pa-rfor a fortnight. It is feared Ihpy , have been killed by liglitnlng on Finsteraarhom, the highest peak,.6f the Bernes© Alps, which are, . Kable to most violent storms, such as. were, reported-, when the party was tumbling.,;- - > ~• \ ' " f.'< IMMIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA. ,• f.Wti t.); ■■■--;• !•■■ London, August 29. The Morning Post publishes statements by ladies) J who have been, inyeeitigp.tiug Australian immigration , possibilities. Queensland and South Australia are commended, but one lady says: .“I would not recommend anyone ip come to, New South Wales. Thpre is no hostel in Sydney . and ,|Kere is-hitter.hostility of trade unituha. ‘Their tyranny in. this State is past belief. Melbourne also > does liot ‘seem’ friemjfly '.lu immigration, though the Victorian scheme &QWT4 "oJL’. -ljut,” *’ <