VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RECORD ENTRIES. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 9. Entries for the principal events at the Sydney and Melbourne spring meetings are:—Epsom 205, Metropolitan 185, Melbourne 274. Caulfield 244. There are increases in all events.

FEDERAL LOAN. MELBOURNE, June 9. In the House of Representatives Hon J. Cook confirmed the report that a Commonwealth loan was contemplated. It is understood that it will amount to £10,000,000. PRICE OF FLOUR, MELBOURNE, June 9. Mill owners have increased the price of flour by 10s tier ton, which is now £2O 7s 6d. Bran and pollard have been reduced by £lO to £9 per ton. MILD SMALLPOX. j SYDNEY, June 9. * The Niagara case lias been definitely diagnosed as mild smallpox. Passengers and crew will he detained in quarantine till/the 19th, the released passengers reporting daily till 19th. The patient, who embarked at Vancouver, suggested she contracted the malady on the west coast of America. SCHOONER OMEGA. MELBOURNE, June 9. All hope for the schooner Omega, which sailed from Hobart for Port Lyttelton on 3rd March, has been abandoned. It is thought the ’vessel foundered in a heavy sea aftet leaving the Tasmanian const.