VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue LXIV, 13 September 1902, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

{Recqived September 13, 10.20 a.m.) PENNSYLVANIA COAL STRIKE. LONDON, 12th September. The Welsh miners havo sent a thousand 'pounds to tho Pennsylvania colliers, who were recently on strike. IN THE PERSIAN GULF. LONDON, 12th September. Tho British cruiser Lapwing has captured three piratical dhows in the Persian Gulf. GERMAN NAVAL TRANSPORT. BERLIN, 12th September. Emperor William has ordered the ostablishment of a special sea transport department in connection with the Cabinet of Naval Defence. A NEW ZEALAND INVESTMENT COMPANY. LONDON, 12tU September. Tho Northern Investment Company of Now Zealand announces a profit of £7952, pays & dividend of 6 per cent., and carries forward £2309. IMPERIAL DEFENCE. LONDON, 12th, September. Tho Colonial Office does not anticipate any conflict between Lord Minto, Gover-nor-General of Canada, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier, in consequence of the remark* of the former at the. Ottawa banquet, since Sir Wilfrid Laurier favours the efficient defence of the Dominion. THE COLOMBIAN CIVIL WAR. NEW YORK, 12th September. The United State* is sending strong naval reinforcements to Panama, in order to keop the railway open. GERMAN MILITARY MANOEUVRES. BERLIN, 12th September. During tho manoeuvres at Frankfurt, in Saxony, the German Emperor led a charge of 8000 cavalry for a. mile. It was a magnificent spectacle. THE BIG OIL TRUST. LONDON, 12th September. Laflan's Nowb Agency states that tho Standard Oil Trust is building twelve large steamers for the trausport^of oil I to Australia. CHOLERA RAVAGES IN EGYPT. LONDON, 12th September. A Reuter message states that since the 15th July there have been 20,328 cunes of cholera in, Egypt, of which 16,209 were fatal.