GENERAL CABLEGRAMS
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r« ' OBSERVATORY. London, August 9. Mr. Duffield, of Adelaide, offers to tho Commonwealth Government certain astronomical instruments which, with tho apparatus already accepted, will enable the Solar Observatory in Australia ■ to participate in international research, thus completing the circle of observatories round tho world. RECORD RAINS. Simla, August 10. Record monsoonal rains have fallen. LARGE SURPLUS. . Simla, August 10. Tho Indian Government is assured of a largo surplus. STATES AND COMMONWEALTH. Melbourne, August 10. Speaking in tho Senate, Senator M'Gregor (Vice-President of tho Executive Council) announced that the States would bo conceded 3J- per cent, interest from July 1, 1910, on properties transferred to the Commonwealth, tho value of which is £9,591,000. , KRUPP'S CENTENARY. Berlin, August 9. Speaking at the Krupp centenary celebrations at Essen, tho Kaiser said: What always gained my sympathy is tho really ideal relations existing between tho Krupp family and their employees." \ IN THE EVENT OF A STRIKE. Melbourne, August 10. Shareholders in tho Jumbuna coal-mine have decided in the event of another strike, which is likely to jeopardise. ,Uioir interests, to wind-up the company. MURDER, Kingston (New York), August 9. Tho police broke into a saloon run by Fritz Barte yesterday, and found the mutilated murdered body of Mrs. Barte. Barte's body was found in an ice-box. MR. G. T. RAIT'S ESTATE. London, August 9. The personalty In tho estate of tho late Mr. Georgo Thomfts Rait (chairman of Van Diemnu's Land Company) has been sworn at X 3.17.621. THE INSURANCE ACT. London, August 9. The Insurance Act Committee at Limerick have accepted the offer of doctors to attend consumptives at ss. a week ior ono or two visits weekly. BRITAIN AND PERSIA. London, August 9. Groat Britain has agreed to a further lo.tu Ifl l'civi". to iissiM. (lie Government to deal effectively with the biluuliou in , the south/''
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1516, 12 August 1912, Page 5
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309GENERAL CABLEGRAMS Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1516, 12 August 1912, Page 5
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