GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1188, 25 July 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Uy Tcleeraph-Pross Association—Oopyrleht MINERS CONDEMN BOY SCOUTS. New York, July 23. The Western Miners' Federation at Butte, Montana, has condemned the Boy Scout movement as befitting flunkeys, wholly unfitting the boys of America tor. citizenship and inculcating a spirit o£ militarism. TEACHERS' TRADE. UNION. Sydney, July 21. At a meeting of school teachers it was decided by a large majority that tho formation'of a trades union of teachers would be inimical to the best interests of the profession. LORD DUDLEY'S DEPARTURE. Sydney, July 21. The. Earl of Dudley, Governor-General, has postponed hit, departure for England, owing to tho illness of Captain C. L. Rome, Military Secretary. ' . A ZOO FOR BRISBANE. Brisbane, July 24. The Queensland Government has set aside eighty acres of land at Yeronga, a suburb of Brisbane, as a Zoological Garden for the city. A POTATO FAMINE. Perth, July 24. There is a potato famino here owing to blight restrictions against importations from the eastern States. Tho tubers aro telling at 10s. per quarter. COOLIE MINERS KILLED. Bombay, July 24. By an explosion at the Champion Reefs mine at Mysore twenty coolies were killed and tho neighbouring buildings were badly shaken. SEVERE GALE IN SYDNEY. Sydney, July 24. Tho gale continues with torrential rain and heavy seas all along the coast. Shir* ping is sheltering.