MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14340, 12 January 1911, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

;S~- -'■" '■"• • Tio Everton Grange, ashore near Adelaide, is being lightened, and it is , expected that she trill be refloated today.. The worst storm for years is raging on the Canadian prairies, with cold and snow. . . j IftaTum fishermen threw a. bomb into ft "lodgihghouse at San Francisco, and «ut of 3»-lodgers, six were injured. A. powder factory near Buenos Ayres exploded, and twelve. persons tilled, A regulation "bag keen adopted by •ho Coßuaanweslth Government giving full political rights to- public servants., but it provides that no officer may oribjicly comrjeut upon tho aciucinistra(JVJßoS any .'State dopar crr.ent. Toe gold; yield of New South "Wales last year showed a decr<3r>se of £66:819.. Seven hundred bags of Tasmaniao potatoes wore condemned on arrivial at Melbourne W account of Irish blight.' CommEjoder. Sims, the "United States naval; officer who .recently made an in-discreet-'public utterance in London, is to J>e reprimanded. 'The eVrersea imports into New South Waias .last year increased in value by £2»51?,726, and the exports- increased by '£5,592,652 L Mr Hammond, the aviator now at "Perth (W.£.), inspected a- local invention- for vaisuring automatic stability, end =-ays' it will revolutionise aviation. Files' from : New Caledonia state tliat 3000/ Japanese immigrants have landted there to work a nickel mine controlled by Baron Rothschild. Tins is caus-ing-indignation amongst the residents. A disastrous bush firo is raging in the Wentwortb district (N.S.W.). The area, of the conflagration is thirty miles long and twenty miles wide, and is the biggest for fifty years.. Several stations are threaten**!. The reinsurances at lUoyd's on the -risiana,. overdne from; Melbourne,, is 40 guineas per cr.-nt., arid on the Everton Grange, stranded atsiKangaroo Is-♦andj-foor .guiu.eas.