VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[PHESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received April 12, 10.5 a.m.) NATIVE OUTRAQKB IN FRENCH CONGO. LOXDOX, 11th April. A serious native ontbie-ik has ovemred at French Congo. Many factories have been looted, nnd a number of Europeans killed. * ANTI - QERMAIj DEMONSTRATION BY TURKS. CONSTANTINOPLE, 11th April. Turkish recruits at Salonica stoned tho wife of the German Consul. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. LOMJON, 11th April. Mr. Yerpks, an American capitalist, has secured capital to the exlent of fifteen millions sterling to convert tho present undei'#round railway iv London into an eleciric railway, and also to construct four other electric lines in London. THE LATEST STRANDING. MELBOURNE, This Day. Tho ship Strathgryffe, which is ashore at Fish Crcsk, is now high and dry. lears are entertained as to the possibility of getting her re-floated. AFRICAN STEAM SERVICES. LONDON, 11th April. The Union-Castle Steamship Company, tho Clan Line, and other South Airicun shipping lines and tho City, Hall and Harrison Companies, having "an aggregate gross tonuago of six hundred thousand tons, are combining with a view to instituting a better and more frequent service between Great Britain aud South and East Africa. A NEW OCEAN STEAMER. LONDON, 11th April. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's new steamer Corinthic (a sister vessel to the Athenic) has been launched. ITALY AND SWITZERLAND. LONDON, 11th April. Italy's diplomatic relations with Switzerland have been ruptured owing to the refusal of Switzerland to prosecute the owners of Anarchist newspapers. THE CANADIAN MILITIA. OTTAWA, 11th April. Mr. Borden, Minister of Defence, has proposed in the Dominion House of Commons to increase the militia to 100,000, largely by the establishment of rifle clubs. PRIZE FOR AERONAUTS. LONDON, 11th April. The Daily Express states that Sir Hiram S. Maxim, the well-known inventor and engineer, offers a prize of £50,000 for a successful flying machine of a satisfactory speed suitable for military purposes. One of the conditions of the award is that the machine must not be in tho form of a balloon. MISS AMY CASTLES. MELBOURNE, 11th April, Miss Amy Castles, the Australian soSrano, who has jusfc returned- from Lonon, made a brilliant debut.