GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1146, 6 June 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright «• • SUGAR WORKERS ON 'STRIKE. (Rcc. June G, O.JO a.m.) Brisbane, June 5. Seventeen hundred and filty sugarcane workers in tho Ayr district havo Kouo on strike. SUNDAY PICTURE SHOWS. Sydney, Juno 5. There was only one picture show open last night, in conseriuenco of tlio new Sunday trading regulations. An enormous crowd tried to gain admission, but hundreds were unable to do so. COLD WEATHER IN MELBOURNE. Melbourne, Juno 5. The weather is exceptionally cold. Yestcrday morning the thermometer registered 32.2deg. Fahr. MEASLES IN SAMOA. Sydney, June 5. A severe epidemic of measles is raping among the natives at y PoEO-pago, Samoa, and has resulted in great loss of life. HEAT WAVE IN ENGLAND. London, Juiie 4. There have been numbers of sudden deaths from heat in London, and the provinces. DROWNED IN A CULVERT. London, June i. A thunderstorm nt Birmingham Hooded a culvert. Four bricklayers who were, working in the culvert at the time wero drowned. MUSIC-nALL CHARITIES. London, June i. Two hundred and fifty music-hall artists collected large sums in the London streets yesterday (King's Birthday) in aid of music-hall charities. BEQUESTS TO EMPLOYEES. London, June i. Tho estate of Sir Thomas Da la Rue, lato chairman of the well-known stationery firm, in Bunhill Row, has been proved at ,£822,030. He bequeathed seven of his employees annuities ranging from .£SOO to X'lso, and substantial sums to others. ORDER FOR RAILWAY PLANT. London, Juno i. Orders assuring two years' work have been placed at Crewe, the central manufacturing depot for the London and North-Westorn Railway. Tho orders include one hundred engines, which will cost n quarter of a million pounds. Some will be fitted with super-heating boilers. TIIE ITZEHOE'S CARGO. Cape Town, June 4. About 2200 tons of the cargo of tho German liner Itzehoe, which went on tho rocks at Retief last month, has been saved in sound condition. Fivo hundred tons of it has been transferred to the Rostock, belonging to tho same lino. NORTHERN TERRITORY. Melbourne, Juno 5. Tho Federal Government has issued ordinances creating a Land Title Registration and General Registry Office and a Supreme Court for the Northern Territory. FUNDS FOR DR. MAWSON. Sydney, June 5. Contributions to Dr. Mawson's Antarctic Expedition fund total ,£21,000. A further ,{119,000 is reqnired. VICE-REGAL MOTOR IN COLLISION. Adelaide, June 5. The Governor's motor-car, with Lady Bosanquet (wife of the Governor) aboard, collided with a van. The motor was damaged, but Lady Bosanquet was unhurt. HISTORIC BUILDING DESTROYED. Paris, June i. Lightning destroyed the law courts at Evretix, capital qt tho Department of Euro. The building was of considerable historical interest, having been originally an ancient Renaissance church.