Beyond The Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 275, 9 July 1910, Page 3

Beyond The Dominion

[ SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET. i Capetown. The South African Cricket Associa- , tion has decided, since a guarantee is not forthcoming, not to send a team to I Australia. [ THE WHITE PLAGUE. London. I The National Association for the ; Prevention of Consumption is sitting | in Conference at Edinburgh. Pro- : fessor Woodhead (Cambridge) said the ( majority of cases rose from inhala tion, and the chief danger lay in broken skin of the mucous membrane* i INDEPENDENCE BANQUET. ! • London.' -. Sir George Aeid, at the Tndepen- • dence banquet in London, said that if i England became a Republic the people i wouH unanimously elect King George i President. The three great Powers—- ! the United States, Britain, and Ausi tralia —meant a- great deal iu the future, andeach had all the territory • it ne'eded. . . ~ DESERTING CHINESE. 1 " • London: The owners of the steamer Crown of* ; Galicia have- appealed against the Board of Trade's decision hot to allow a £IOO fine to be debited against the account of a Chinese member of the crew, who had deserted in Australia, as expenses had been incurred through his desertion. Counsel on behalf'of the Board of Trade argued "that the owners had knowingly risked taking Chinamen to Australia, and were fined, pirinarily, because they broke the Australian law. If the present claim were allowed, it might have a disastrous effect on British,, seamea, whose account might be lumped-with that of deserting Chinamen. \ The decision was reserved. AVIATION AT RHEIMS/ < ■ '-'■/'■ .'■ Paris.'." ' There was a great attendance at.the Rheims aviation meeting. When the compactions started, wind and rain prevailed, but the weather'was calm later, and at one time 20 aeroplanes were flying simultaneously. Eight accidents occurred, three aeroplanes being smashed, and one aviator (M. Martinet) was badly injured. Experts, discussing the collapse of Wachter's monoplane, which resulted in the aviator's-death, insist that aeroplaning in a strong wind will always be attended with danger, as it overstrains the frames of the machines, though, no doubt, flights with a stiff breeze blowing will possess,a peculiar fascination for aviators. . Ottawa. M. de Lesseps, a Frenchman, circled round Montreal at a height of 2000 ft, covering 30 miles in 49 minutes.