VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 14, 17 July 1905, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

* MOTOR BOAT,RACB. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received July 17, 9.6 a.m.) PARIS, 16th July. There were eighteen competitors in the motor boat race from Boulogne to Folkestone and back, fifty-one miles. The Rapiere won the contest, covering the distance in ono hour fifty minutes. Napier 11. finished 3min earlier, but was disqualified on a technicality. ENGLISH CRICKET. LONDON, 16th July. The cricket match Eton v. HaTrow ended in a draw. * HONOURS FOR JAPANESE STATESMEN. LONDON,. 15bh July. King Edward has conferred tho Knight Grand Cross of the Bath on Count Katsura, Premier of Japan, aaid th© Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George on Bacon Komnra, Japanea© Miniater of Foreign Affaire. * THE BAPTIST CONFERENCE. LONDON, 16th July. King Edward has thanked fch© Baptisto' Congress for a anessage oent t» ■himself and Queen AleusandTa. H« a*. buvgb the Congress that tbeir action i« ' greatly appreciated. •LONG-DJSTANCE SWIMMING LONDON, Wbh July. D. Billington -vron the long-dktaac© awimming championship raoe, from Kew to Putney, in lte Bmin 55sec, b»a,tiog Keran, of Sydney, by fiv© yaeda, after « magnificent struggle. Jarvia mi tftjird a quarter of a milo behind. ' EXPLOSION AT A PERFORMANCE. SYDNEY, 16bh July. During a cinematograph entertainmf nt in the W«st Maitland Town vail the ga« generator exploded. A scow of fhe f audienco wero uijnred by flying fragmonts and in tho at»mped« wbioh followed, but awno was scrtouely hurt. Tho building w conaid*rably damaged. FLOODS IN VICTORIA. (Received July 17, 10.12 n.m.) /MELBOURNE, Thia Day. ■Tho Murray River ia aMll rising, and floods are feared. Th« Jovrlying pa.rta at Eohuca (the terminus of tho Murray River railway and l,he entrepot Of tho overland intercolonial trade) aro under water. TRADE COMMISSIONER. ADELAIDE, This Day. Mr. Jeffray, the British Board of Trad© Comirassioner, ihas arrived he-re. He intends to tmafco enquiries into tho diversion of Australian trade to foreign countries, with a view of devising means to stop it.