VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 148, 23 June 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.! (Received June 23, 8.1 a.m.) REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. NEW YORK, 22nd June. Tho Republican National Convention has opened at Chicago. The Hon. Elihn Root, tho United States tsecrelnry of War, is acting aa temporary Chairman, lie eulogised President Roosevelt's policy, and claimed that' no private industry had been suppressed, but corpora tiona encroaching on tho righu of the public had been cuioed. STEAMER RATES. LONDON, 22nd June. Tho Canard lino hnK> fixeil the steerago rates from America at £3. KING EDWARD AND THE KAISER. BERLIN, 22nd Jui.e. In the naval lnancouvra* to be held at Kiel in honour of King I'Mward'n vi.Mt to tlus Kniser, twelve ironclads and ten cruisers, besides torpedo divisions, will take part. CANADIAN MILITIA. OTTAWA, 22id June. • Tho Dominion Government has definite, ly accepted the principle of a naval militia. MDLLE. DOLORES. LONDON, 22nd June.' Mdlle. Antonia Doloren, who has-visit-ed New Zealand on several occasions, held a successful recital at St. James's Hall. A CAPE SENSATION. CAPETOWN, 22nd June. Sir Gordon Sprigg, having alienated his former supporters, withdrew bis candidature for election to the Capo Assembly at tho last moment. Tho announcement caused a- .sensation. EMBEZZLEMENT. BI3LORADE, 22nd June. M. Todorovich, ox-President of Belgrade, has been sentenced to eighteen mouths' imprisonment for embezzling money. (Received June 23, 10.41 a.m,) CONFERENCE OF HEALTH OFFICERS MELBOURNE, This Day. A conference of inter-State Health Officers to discuss matters relating to Federal quarantine- has opened. PROTECTION OF AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIES. MELBOURNE, This Day. A conference of trades passed a rcsolu'tion iv favour of tho Federal Parliament providing more adequate protection to Australian industries. TRADE WITH THE ISLANDS. MELBOURNE, This Day. British residents at Gilbert and EHise Lilands in an interview with Mr. Hughes, Attorney-General, stated that the Paclflo Trading Company hail sold its interests to a. German Company, with tnc result that British traders aie at a grave difOMlvantuge. They urged tho neevhsihr for improved trade communication with tho Commonwealth. COLLAPSE OF A WALL. MELBOURNE, 22nd June. While a wall at Kimplon'* factory, recently destroyed by Ore, wa«. being dismantled, tho skeleton collapsed. Two men named Ferguson and Chinnery were killed, and two others— Elliott and Miller 1 — badly injured. (Received June 23, 10.45 a.m.) TWO MINERS KILLED. BRISBANE, This Day. Two miners mimed Rcballick and Smith were killed at Charters Towers by a fall of stono '