MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 13 November 1912, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) The General Booth Memorial at Sydney will be a home for nbedy working men, with accommodation for 700, and costing £20,000. At Qnary, Indiana, a ton of dynamite -exploded at the Powder Company’s works. Six men were blown through the roof and killed. The Imperial Government has accepted the Malay States’ offer of a battleship. At the blood-stock sales at Melbourne, the New Zealand-bred Blackpool fetched 250 guineas, 1 enter hook 190 guineas, Shu] a was passed at 3 io guineas. ■At Dunkirk, near the Straits of Dover, the schooner Casimar Perrier, broke’adrift and sank fifteen fishing sloops. The loss of life is unknown. There has been a severe gale throughout England, and out-door work in many of the dockyards and with shipping is being hampered on the oast and west coasts. Mrs Gilmour secured a maintenance order in Sydney for £1 weekly against J. R. Gilmour, the well-known lootbailer, who has also to pay the cost of,his extradition from New Zealand. The cyclonic storm in the Grafton (N.S.W.) district was immense. Hailstones pierced roofs and broke windows wholesale. Great damage was done to the fruit and other crops. Reports from New Caledonia state that a severe drought has been experienced Cattle are suffering from scarcity of food and water. Great ravages on the coffee plantations are being made by a disease named “He-m-ilia Vastutrix.” The remains of a mastodon (extinct mammal resembling the elephant) have been found at Valdez. The tusks arc twelve feet six inches 4 long and the hair is preserved. It is believed to be the best specimen yet. found.