GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1201, 9 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

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The Prince of Wales has joined mo battleship Hindustan as a midshipman. CHOLERA SEBUM FOR MARSEILLES. Paris, August 8. . Tho Paris Pasteur Institute has sent a supply of anti-cholera serum to Marseilles. Dr. Solembini, the inventor of tho eerum, is superintending Us application. ENGLISH CRICKET. London, August 8. C. B. Fit, the cricketer, playing for Surrey, scored 123 runs against. Kent. PASSENGERS FROM LONDON. Fremantlc, August 8. Madame Melba is a passenger on tho Orient liner (Jsterley, which arrived today from London. Mr. Frank Wilson, Premier of West Australia, and Sir John Kirk, (l"v e ror of tho Ragged School Union, aro also on board. The object of Sir John Kirk's visiC is to meet workers connected with tho ragged schools, and to ascertain their views us to placing boys and girls on tho land.

FIRE VICTIM HANGS HIMSELF. Paris, August 7. During a fire at. Toulouse an inmato of tho building, finding it impossible to escape, hanged himself. FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. '-■'''■ Paris, August 7. Foot-and-mouth disease in tho Saons and Loire districts is making serious progress. Cattle, sheep, and pigs, valued at ,£9OOO. liav'o becra destroyed. ■ BALLOON FATALITY IN JAVA, Batavia, August 7. Lieutenants Rambalda and Strin, whilo ballooning at Sonrabaya, fell. Lieutenant Rambalda was killed. AUSTRALIAN TELEPHONES. ■ Melbourne, August S. x Tho telephone revenue last week showed an increase of .610,000 over the corresponding period last year. GIGANTIC MILITARY STORE-HOUSE. Melbourne, August 8. The Federal Gorerninout is planning a gigantic storehouse, with a floor space of seven and a half acres, for military stores.

SYDNEY'S FISH SUPPLY. Sydney, August 8. The first shipment of privately trawled fish was placed on the market yesterday. It resulted in a marked decline in values. A FATAL BEVERAGE. Sydney, August 8. ■ Oα Sunday two men were found unconscious in Druitt Street. One of them subsequently died; the other recovered. It is stated that tho men had been drinking iiquor sold to them in the street on Sunday morning as rum. OBITUARY. Sydney, August 8. Tho death is reported of tho Rev. Mr. Baker, ono of tho oldest Anglican clergymen in the State. PLAGUE OF CATERPILLARS. Adelaide, August 8. A plague of caterpillars stopped a train at Olary, making tho lines slippery. AN EXCLUSIVE UNION. Adelaide, August 8. An immigrant hatter, who applied to become a member of tho Hatters' Union, was told that he would havo to pny twenty guineas' entrance fe.e EX-NEW ZEALANDER'S SUICIDE. Sydney, August 8. A , verdict of suicide was returned at the inqitt&t concerning the death of Mrs. Mary Wilson, the ex-New Zealander who was found with her throat cut. at the Town Hall Coffee Palace on Sunday. A stewardess from tho Mahcno stated that the deceased joined tho vessel at Auckland. She mentioned in conversation on board that sha had been to seo a doctor.