COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1914, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

PRODUCING RAIN. [By Electric telegraph—Copyright; [United Press Association-I Melbourne, March 7. Mr Balsillie, the Commonwealth’s radio telegraphy engineer, claims the discovery of amethod to artificially produce rain, but decilnes to give details till he has demonstrated its success. Mr G. H. Knibbs, Commonwealth Statistician, a practical scientist, from details of experiments supplied him, says that the plausibility of the scheme true, a colossal discovery.

proves true, a colossal discovery

METHODIST CONFERENCE. (Received 9.5 a.in.) . Sydney, March 9. The Methodist Conference granted the New Zealand Conference’s request to ordain the Rev. Scriven for the mission field. TWO BOYS DROWNED.

(Received 9.0 a.m.) Hobart, March 9

Two boys, Williams and Schultz, were drowned in attempting to swim ashore from a drifting boat. SMALLPOX IN AUSTRALIA. Sydney, March 8. A case of smallpox is reported ofrom Stockton.

JEALOUS GIRL’S CRIME,

Sydney, March 7

A young woman named Alice Mabel Rankin, formerly a barmaid, - walked into Hogan’s tailoring establishment in King Street, and fired four shots at an employee, Gilbert Irving, two striking him. His condition is serious. She then bred two shots into her own breast. She will probably recover. The affair is the outcome of jealousy, arising out of Irving’s recent marriage.

(Received 11.55 a.m.) Svdnev, March 9

After shooting Irvine, Rankin kept everyone at bay by threatening to shoot, until she completed the job of shooting herself.