VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 85, 12 April 1901, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

(Received April 12, 9.55 a.m.) ' COMMISSARIAT FRAUDS IN MANILA. NEW YORK, 11th <*pril. Great commissariat frauds have been discovered at Manila. Several American officers have been arrested. THE ROYAL PALACES. LONDON, 11th April. The King retains Sandringham House, his seat in Norfolk, the Duke of Cornwall being given the use of Balmoral Castle, the favourite residence of the late Queen. AMERICAN v. AUSTRALIAN HORSES. LONDON, 11th April. * It is reported that the German forces ill China find that horses obtained from Oregon are unruly and hard to train, and altogether inferior to Australian horses. THE RIVERSTONE ABDUCTION CASE. ' SYDNEY, V Thia Day. Locke, the half-caste, has been committed for trial in connection with tho abduction of the girl Wood at Riverstone, twenty-eight miles north-west of Sydney. THE IMPERIAL CONTINGENT. SYDNEY, This Day. Advices from Colombo state 'that on the arrival of the troopship Britannio there it was ascertained that altogether thirty Imperial soldiers had deserted during the visits to Australian ports. BREACH OF QUARANTINE REGU- . LATIONS. SYDNEY, This Day. The captain of the steamer Euryalus, on which ' the smallpox cases were recently discovered, has been committed for trial for breach of the Quarantine Act, in making a false answer to the Health Officer that there had been no sickness aboard his vessel during the voyage. NEW SOUTH WALES .TRADE. SYDNEY, This Day. The imports into Sydney from Ist January to 6lh Apfil amounted to £5,620,000, a decrease of £569,000 ; and the exports to £5,162,000, an increase of over £351,000, as compared with the same period last year. MARINE ENQUIRY. PERTH, This Day. At the preliminary enquiry into the wreck of the Karrakatta at Swan Cape, the captain and officers were exonerated from blame. The Court greatly praised tho captain and the chief engineer for their cool behaviour. The evidence proved that the steamer struck on an uncharted rock.