VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 40, 16 August 1905, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

l'peess association.] DESTITUTE LABOURERS. (Received" August 16, 8.47 a.m.) MADRID. 15th August. There are one hundred thousand destitute labourers in Andalusia, as the result of the failure of crops. Great efforts- are being made by means of public charity to Cope with the distress. TROUBLE -WITH CHINESE COOLIES. CAPETOWN, 15th August. Fourteen Chinese coolies on the East Rand deserted and attacked a farm. The occupier used his revolver, killing three. Tho remaining Chinamen thereupon decamped. BOUND FOR THE BALTIC SEA. LONDON, 15th .August. Admiral Wilson, with eleven battleships, eight cruisers, and twenty-four destroyers, have started for the Baltic Sea. THE TROUBLESOME MULLAH. ROME, 15th August. The newspaper 11 Messagero asserts that Britain and Italy are concerting with the object of adopting measures against ■the Somali Mullah for breaking his pledges to keep the peace. KING EDWARD'S TRIP ABROAD. King Edward, who has left for Marienbad, -will visit Emperor Francis Jossph of Austria at Ischl (Austria). Lord Knollys, his Majesty's private secretary, denies reports which have appeared in German newspnpeis that the King intends to visit the Kaiser. ABYSSINIA. LONDON, 15th August. England and France have relinquished rivalry in Abyssinia. , CEREBRAL MENINGITIS. LONDON, 15th August. Cases of cerebral meningitis have occurred in the Kettering district, Northamptonshire. The authorities are adopting stringent measures of isolation. A SUBSIDY RENEWED. OTTAWA, 15tli August. Tho Dominion Government has renewed the subsidy of £37,000 to the service of the Union Company of New Zealand. THE NORWAY-SWEDEN DISSOLUTION. - CHRISTIANIA, 15th August. , Only one person in every two thousand Norwegians voted against separation from Sweden in tho poll lately taken. Eighty per cent, of electors voted. THE DUTY ON HARVESTERS. (Received August 16, 9.6 a.m.) LONDON, 15th August. The Ottawa correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, referring to Sit- W. Lyne's action in raising the duty on harvesters imported into the Commonwealth, says: — It is stated in Ottawa that the Customs Department possesses confidential information which has not been divulged oven to members of the Dominion Parliament. Canada maintains special officers in the United States to ascertain American domestic values, and it is considered the Commonwealth should act similarly. RUSSIAN NOVELIST IN TROUBLE. ST. PETERSBURG, 15th August. The Governor of Warsaw has ordered the detention of Sienkiewicz, novelist, in his domicile for signing a public protest against the Russificalion of Polish schools. A LONG-STANDING DISPUTE. PARIS, 15th August. The American referee chosen to finally adjudicate on France's claims for damages sustained bj- Frenchmen owing ,to the Venezuelan insurrection in 1901, has awarded several sums aEeroeatinff 5,000,000 francs. SWIMMING. STOCKHOLM, 15th August. Kieran, tho Australian swimmer, won the lOOmetres handicap in lmin 37 l-sth sec. Nobody finished in the four-mile event. Kieran was exhausted 200 metres from, the finish. GHINESE STOWAWAYS. BRISBANE, 15th August. An officer of the German mail steamer Prince XYaldettiar admits that the twentythree Ckir.e&o stowaways found on the last trip of the vessel have not returned to Hongkong, but are imprisoned at Horbertshohe (in tho Bismarck Archipelago) for two- yenrs, with hard labour. Six have since died. PROTECTING INSURERS. MELBOURNE, 15th August. Replying to a question in the Houso of Representatives to-day, Mr. Denkin, the Federal Premier, said enquiries were to be made, with a view to protecting the interests of persons assured in connection with one of the large American companies which it Jiad been stated contemplated withdrawing from Australia. The Commonwealth Government, added the Premier, had no power to deal with insurance till legislation was passed on the matter. CANNIBALISTTO FEAST. (Received August 15, 10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. News from New Hebrides states that a cannibalistic feast look place at Mnllicollo. Two Mafkeylyne Islundcra were murdcicd and eaten. The natives had not tasted human flesh for many years. THE PERTH SENSATION. "~~ PERTH, This Day. At an inquest on 11. I. Blake," manager and attorney of the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company, whoso mutilated body was found on the Bth August, the Inspector stated that he suspended Blake for irregularities, and Blako cabled to his father for money to meet the deficiency.