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STRIKE IN PORTUGAL.
MILITARY CALLED OUT.
(Received Last Night, 11.35 o'clock) LISBON, August- 28.
Plarty thomand oork cutters, lightecnmleai: and dockets have struck at Badiajoz.
The imiliitatry 'aire gjuarding ffchte quays amd public buildingis.
DESTRUCTION OF ALCOHOL.
BY FLASH OF LIGHTNING.
(Received Last Night, 11.35 o'clook) ROME, August 28. Lightmiiig ignited ome /million litres of alcihal in /the distflJileries at Milan. :
' The. damage 'is estimated at about £120,000.
A FRENCH FLIGHT.
(Rjeoeivied Last Ndight, 11.36 o'doak.)
PARIS, Angugt-28. M. Heine®, 'who now holds the MLdhjeliitt Cup, aeroplaned eleven humdred. and (twieaity-six kaloanetries in thirteen hours forty-aiine minutes.
THE M.C.C. TEAM.
(Received Laist Night, 11.35 o'clock.)
LONDON, August 28. Major Trevor, writing ho the Daily TeOiegraiph, states that if. the Maryleibomie Club'® cricket team returns (having ibeaitm the Australians, .tihey wall hawe woSom right to congratulate, theansffllvies (than on. 'any other previous occasion..
SERIOUS DAMAGE. -
WHEAT CHOP AFFECTED BY FROST.
(Jfteoeived August 28, 9 . a.m.)
OTTAWA, August 27. Am mruexpected frost .seriously daanagied tihe wfheaifc crops in Saskatchewan and Northern) AJbberlta. .
It is aaiticdpiated thait two (hundred inailioiii bushel® of the wheat liarvieab ! hav».' been,' * ,dashed to ' the ground. ' ; The; Josisr is estimated at teans of thousandis of pounds' sterling.
LAWN TENNIS.
NORTH OF ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIP.
(Received August 28, 8.00. a^m.)
LONDON, August 27
In tihe North of England lawn, tenmi® championship, Parke beat Dunlop, 6—4, 10—S, 6—l.
MOTOR CAR FATALITY.
AUTOMOBILIST KILLED
(Received August 28, 9 a.m.)
NEW YORK, August 27.-J
Lusk, a veteran automobilist, was travelling at. a speed of sixty-five miles am hour at Elgin, IlMnois,when machine cast a tyre. Lusk was thrown out. Jaoobs, the mechanician,.' was' killed outright. - • -.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10406, 29 August 1911, Page 5
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281VARIOUS CABLES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10406, 29 August 1911, Page 5
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