VARIOUS GABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 36, 11 August 1905, Page 5

VARIOUS GABLED ITEMS.

[PKESS ASSOCIATION."] (Received Aug. 11, 8.35 a.m.) REVOLT IN CHINA. HONGKONG, 10th August. A telegram from Kaifungfu states that the Imperial Chinese troops have revolted, and joined the anti-Christians. A mob of rebels, two thousand strong, captured Suichinfi&ien. BRITISH TRADE. ' LONDON, 10th August. The British imports in July increased £3,785,000 and the exports increased £3,037,000 compared with the corresponding month last year. THE LATE SIR P. N. RUSSELL. LONDON, 10th August. • The personalty of the late Sir P. N. Russell, of Sydney, has been sworn at £98,000. The deceased leaves £3000 to the Engineering Society and £13,000 amongst the hospitals and charitable institutions in Sydney. OBITUARY. WASHINGTON, 10th August. Archbishop Chapelle, of New Orleans, died of yellow fever. [The decea.sed, who was appointed Roman Catholic, Archbishop of New Orleans in 1897, ftas president of the theological conference held at Baltimore and ■Washington, and in 1898 was appointed apostolic delegate, by the Pope, of Cubn and Puerto Rico. lie was 63 years of age.] ' TROUBLE IN WEST AFRICA. BERLIN, 10th August. The Cologne Gazette reports that six thousand Kuangamas attacked and massacred the majority of Portuguese settiers in several villages in Kakonda, in the Angola district, West Africa. Three French missionaries jy/ho were captured escaped. ENGLISH UNEMPLOYED BELL. LONDON, 10th August. In tho House of Lords the Unemployed Bill passed through committee without amendment. ROCKEFELLER'S BENEFACTIONS. NEW YORK, 10th August. Mr. John D. Rockefeller is planning details of a gift of fifty million dollars to education. Tho amount ift-to be distributed in various directions. Mr. Rockefeller hopes that Chicago University will ultimately become the greatest in the world. CHINESE IN SOUTH AFRICA. CAPETOWN, 10th August. , There are forty thousand Chinese coolies employed in tho Rand mines.v BULGARIANS AND TURKS. SOFIA, 10th August. A Bulgarian band visited a farm between Tikvesh and Karadjva, and killed the owner's son, eight shepherds, and many fiheep. , Inspection of laundries. LONDON, 10th August. Mr. Akers-Douglas, Secretary of State for Homo Affairs, has announced the furture introduction of a Bill providing for the inspection of laundries conducted at conventual institutions in tho way of trade or for purposes of gain. GERMAN EMIGRANTS. LONDON, 10th August. During the sayeu months ending July 31st 224,229 emigrants left Bremen and Hamburg. This number is greater than for any similar period in the past. (Received August 11, 10.20 a.m.) THE FEDERAL SITE. MELBOURNE, This Day. Already it lute cost the Commonwealth over £13,000 for' reports on tho proposed Federal capital sites, and Parliamentary visits to the sites. ,