VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

"■Ji •+••■■: • [PRR3B ASQOCUTION.] (Received September 20, 9.33 a.m.) AN EXPEDITION T»AT FAILED. LONPON, I9ih Baptcmbcr. The Ziegltti- cxjiodit^n failed to re«oh Franz Joseph Land, the ict) proving an intiurmcnintubto burricr, Tho expedition rootijied 79 dDgreeo north. [The expedition, which is under tho leadership of Mr. Fiala, left in Juno, 1903.) ' THE KING'S ESTATES. LONDON, J9th September. The King's Harmful estates at SUgq and Rcfconimqu ljuvo beon sold to tho tenants f^r J560Q,000 on a twenty-four and (V half ye&ra' purchaao, or with a bonus a.p tho end of twpnty-scvpu anq tliree-quartor yoara. A SERIOUS FRACAS. PEKJN, 19th Reptember. Italian sqldiera^ who were drilling on the ground adjoining the legation at Pekin, attacked and boat two unarmed Chinese sohliprs who were watching tho operations, and whp declined to leave. A serious fracas followed. Tho Chinasa ijoldiory succeeded in averting further trouble. Tho incident is likely to b» satisfactorily settled. AN AUSTRALIAN KILLED. LONDON, 19th September. The Daily Mail pUtes that Mr. Nevit Vprdon, of Melbourne, and Secretary to General Sir H. A. Kqid Mao Lean, Colonel of tlie Sultan of Morocco's bodygnard, fell from a torraqo while flyipg Bro h»l' loons, and wan killed. DESTRUCTION QF RABBITS. SIDNEY, 19lh September. Tha Pasteur Institute- eecenUy agreed, for the purpose of prnotical demonstration, tp furnish 'the «oie»tiflo men and laboratory equipment necessary for the supply of virus for tho destruction of rabbits, on payment of £6000. The matter wop discussed at a mooting of p»stor&lipt*, when a suggestion was mado that the Stock Bonrda should furnish half the^jnount and the Government tho balance.' A deputation is to interview the Government on the /subject shortly, and it is also hoped to on)ut the co-opera-|4qn of other Stated in the experiment. PLAGUE IN QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, This Day. A boy has died from plague, SHIPMENT QF SPECIE. SYDNEY, 19bh September. The Ventura, which left, here this afternoon for San Francisco, via Isaid, took speole to the value of £501,000.