AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1202, 10 August 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL.

Brisbane, August 9. The New South Wales Rugby League football team defeated Queensland by 26 points to 14.

THE CANADIAN HARVEST. Ottawa, August 9. Advices from Winnipeg state that tho frequency of reports of blnck rust affecting tho wheat crops is giving rise to apprehension that the harvest returns will bo seriously lessened. FROZEN BEEF TRICES. London, August 9. The price of frozen beef has advanced threepence per -pound owing to tho nondelivery of the shipments of chilled beef. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS. London, August 8. . The Board of Trade returns for July show that imports increased by tho sum of .£1,690,018, compared with the previous month, whilo exports'' decreased by .£3,780,541, and re-exports by ,£42,876. BANK ■ OFFICIALS ARRESTED. Berlin, August 8. Wagner and Haraann, two officials of the Imperial Bank, have been arrested on a charge of embezzling £12,500. CORONATION COSTS. Melbourne, August 9. Tho personal costs of Australia s official representatives at the Coronation and the Imperial Conference amount to ,£7390. ' THE MAWSON EXPEDITION. Melbourne, August 9. Tho Acting-State Premier (Mr, Watt) has declined- in advance to assist Dr. Mawson's Antarctic expedition, holding that it is a matter for the Commonwealth.

DIAMOND MINING IN NEW SOUTH AVALES. Sydney, August 9. Increased, success is attending the efforts of tho diamond miners. Copcton and parly secured two hundred and fifty carats in a few days. Tho stones are of good quality. A NEW ZEALANDER FINED. ' Sydney, August 9. Alexander Phillips, an Auckland horse dealer, lias been fined .£3O for evading payment of Customs duty on twelve gekl rings brought from New Zealand.