VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 43, 19 August 1902, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

-■•■■ o . ' [PBXSS ASSOCIATION. 1 (Received August 19, 10.30 a.m.) A UNIQUE PHONOGRAPHIC RECORD. LONDON, 18th August. A phonographic record of Fijians singing "Home, Sweet Home," has been sent to the King. NEW JAPANESE WARSHIP. LONDON, 18th August. Japan has ordered two first-class cruisers to be built on the Clyde, of larger displacement than that of the Admiralty's lntest cruisers. FATALITIES IN THE ALPS. ' LONDON, 18th August. An unprecedented number of fatalities is occurring in the Alps this season. The victims are tourists of all nationalities, who were mostly accompanied by guides. FALL OF HOUSES IN HONGKONG. LONDON, 18th August. Several houses in Hongkong have collapsed, killing twenty people. - FRENCH STEAiuaiS IN THE PACIFIC. PARIS, 18th August. The Tahitians are urging the French Government to susidise an extension of the Marseilles-Sydney steam line to San Francisco via Tahiti. A VICTORIA CROSS AWARD. • LONDON, 18th August. Shoeing Smith A. Ford, of the Horse Artillery, has been awarded the Victoria ! Cioss for securing a gun under heavy fire in the fight at Tafel Kop, Orange River Colony, in December last, after the remainder of the gun team had been ! killed. < • FORGED MINING SCRIP. SYDNEY, l&h August. A sharebrokor's clork named Plant has '. been arrested in connection with the issue of forged scrip at Melbourne. The total amount Of the frauds is £1800. WELLINGTON'S TOWN CLERK. SYDNEY, 18th August. Mr. J. P. Palmer, the newly-appointed Town Clerk of Wellington, New Zealand, was entertained by the Municipal staff prior to his departure for New Zealand. A STEAM KR DISABLED. PERTH, This Day. The 'ttoamer Queen Wilhelmiha, from New York to Adelaide, was picked up fifty mile* off Albany with a broken tailshaft, and towed into port, after drifting > four days.