Beyond The Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 182, 16 August 1909, Page 3

Beyond The Dominion

CANADA'S WHEAT CROP. Ottawa, Aujtjf/l II

The Canadian Department of Agriculture estimates at the end of Jv.ly th&t the wheat yield for Manitoba, Saskat chewan and Alberta was 157,4G-1,000 bushels, compared with 110.524,000 bushels at the end of. July 1908.

BALLOONS IN WARFARE. Madrid, August 11. The captive bailoon used by the Spanish forces at Mel ilia u proving very useful in locating the enemy in the gorges on the slopes of Mount Guguru. EXPRESS DERAILED. London, August 11. Owing to the expansion of the rail 3 by the sun's heat an express was derailed near Staleybridge yesterday, two being kitled, and 10 injured. OVER THE ALPS. London, August 11. M. Spelterini's balloon Sirius crossed the Mount Blanc range from Chamonix,and descended near Locarno, on Lake Maggiore. It travelled 100 miles, over 18,000 f».et high, the lowest temperature being 58 below zero. The balloon was a day and a half in the air.

NAVAL RESERVES. Brisbane, August 12. Admiral Sir Richard Poore, in a speech at the Agricultural Show, appealed to "employers to grant men who passed into the naval reserve fourteen days' annually for training. He regretted to say that the attitude of employers was not satisfactory and men trained for the navy declined to enter the naval reserve on taking up civilian life, because they found a disinclination on the part of employers to allow the time necessary for training.

KING EDWARD'S MESSAGE. London, August 11. During the King's conversation with Sir Joseph Ward on Monday, His Majesty gave Sir Joseph a message for the Dominion of New Zealand, expressing great satisfaction at its progress and patriotism. Sir Joseph nad Lady Ward were the guests of the Prince and Princess of Wales at luncheon at Marlborough House yesterday. THE ALL RED MAIL ROUTE. Melbourne, August 11. A question in Senate today elicited the informtaion that no further communication had been received or sent to Great Britain or Canada in connection with the All Red Route, and that no proposals for the improvement of the Vancouver mail service were under consideration at present. GREEK DEFIANCE. London, August 12. The "Times" Canea correspondent reports that the Powers' intimation that unless the Greek flag was lowered the island would be re-occupied has produced great irritation. Cretans declare that they will all perish rather than lower the flag which has been nailed to the mast at Canea fort. London, August 12. Reuter's agent at Canea states that the Cretan Government advised a meeting of members of the Assembly and other public men that it would be well to follow the recommendations of the Powers, including the permanent removal of the Greek flag from Canea fort. The leaders of the insurrection of 1896-7, representing the bulk of the provincial population, strongly opposed the Government's views. JEFFRIES AND JOHNSON. London, August 12. Reuter's New York Agency announces that Johnson and Jeffries signed articles yesterday. Jeffries has nowstarted for Europe. The fight takes place in eight months' time. Jeffries goes to Carlsbad to take the waters and then returns to America, where he will take a course of mountainee'rine in the Rockies before finally settling down in his training quarters. BALLOON FIRED ON. St. Petersburg, August 12. Russian frontier guardsmen stationed near Prozelarka, on the Silesian boundary, fired upon a German balloon which was crossing the frontier into Russia. The guards compelled the descent of the balloon, and on the decsent three of the aeronauts were killed and a fourth seroiusly injured. Germans state that the Russians opened fire before the balloon crossed the frontier. TERRITORIALS INJURED. London, August 12. A motor van at Tilshead, Wiltshire, darted into a party of London Territorials returning from Riplestone camp, after manoeuvres, .-eventeer. of the Territorial were in;ured ; ::ve s-riousiy. 1.,.:. ;.,;.. August 12. In the House of Commons last night Mr Asouith stated that the matter of a Government grant towards Lieutenant Shackleton's expenses was under consideration.