GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Assceiation-CopyrlaM. < — 4 —_—_ MEALS FOR SCHOOL-CHILDREN. (Rec." January 26, 0.25 p.m.) ,' London, January 26. The County Council supplied 9,500,000 meals' to school children during last year. The cost increased from a penny three-farthings per meal, to twopence. AUSTRALIAN NOTE ISSUE. Melbourne, January 26. The number of Federal notes issued to date is 1,550,376, with a value of ,£3,756,691. AUSTRALIAN BAND CONTEST. Sydney, January 26. In tho intcr-Stato baud contest, the bands' own-choice- selections in tho B grade competitions resulted as follow:— Broken Hill Band, 97 points, 1; Saint George's City Band, 90 points, 2; Corrimal, 88 points, 3. There were- six competitors. THE MEXICAN REVOLT. ■ New York, January 26. A hundred Mexican cavalrymen are fighting two hundred insurgents forty miles south of the United States border. Reinforcements have been asked for from Jaurez.' \ NORWICH ROYAL SHOW. ' London, Jnnuavv 26. The King, in writing to Mr. Ailwyn E. Fellows, calls attention to the invitation to overseas. Ministers for Agriculture to attend tho Royal Show.at Norwich, and expresses tho hopo that many will be able to accept.

Constantinople, January 25. The Arab .insurgents have invested the towns of Hodeida and Sanaa, in Yemen. Brisbane, January 26. The steamer Eastern, .1586 tons, belonging to the Eastern and , Australian Steamship Company, is aground at Salamander Bank. Hobart, January 25. James Roach and his wife, an elderly couple, were burnt to death while i'u bed. The origin of the lire' in unknown.