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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1929, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS

RACE TO AUSTRALIA

LINERS FROM LONDON

LONDON, October 28. Although the companies concerned do not countenance racing, Australian shipping circles will await with great interest the result of the first neck-and-neck passage between the Aber-deen-Commonwealth liner Esperance Bay and the P. and 0. branch liner Ballarat.

Both left London on October 15. The , Ballarat, which has been newly speeded up, left Suez four and three-quarter hours ahead of the Esperance Bay on October 26, although she called at i Malta.

Supporters df the Ballarat prophecy that she will be a day ahead at Colombo and two days ahead at Fremantle, but admirers of Captain Roderick M’Kenzie, knowing his capabilities with such a fine seaboat as the Esperance Bay, say he would win if the countenacing of racing allowed him to consume the necessary fuel.

MURDER OF PRIEST.

ALLEGED YUGO-SLAV CRIME

BELGRADE, November 30.

Albania has presented a Note to Yugoslavia, demanding an inquiry into the murder of a Roman Catholic priest, Djekov, aged GO, described as an Albanian subject, and punishment for the two men who are said to have shot him from ambush. The Albanian Note says that Yugoslav gendarmes are also involved.

The Yugoslav Ministry has not yet completed its inquiry nor established whether Djekov was an Albanian or a Yugoslav subject.

DOG EPIDEMIC. * LONDON, Oct. 1. The worst, outbreak of distemper for three years is raging fiercely among London’s dogs. Hundreds are dying every week. Among the places worst affected are some of the holiday homes, where animals are left during their owners’ absence. In one, where distemper is believed to have been introduced by one dog, some 400 others became involved. /Police stations also, where stray dogs lure collected, are not clear, j Discussing the situation yesterday, a /veterinary surgeon in South London paid : | The outbreak is serious and widespread. To a certain extent the very ;dry summer may be to blame, infection ‘being carried, by the clouds of dust. ; ’there are three forms of the prerent outbreak There is catarrhal distemper, which is fairly easily cured; Igastrie distemper, which is like tvjphoid, and nervous distemper, which ‘leads to paralysis. ! The two latter forms are very dangerous, and about 50 per cent, of puppies between the ages of four and seven months are dying. Among older dogs the percentage in the worst affected district is about 20 per cent. Tnocculation has saved many dogs, as tlilose so treated, which afterwards catch the disease do not get it so badiv.