CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTKIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.]

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 48, 25 August 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTKIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.]

• CHANNEL FLEET IN A STORM. I c DESTROYERS DAMAGED. [PHESS ASSOCIATION.") (Received August 25, 8.25 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, 24th August. A storm struck the British Channel fleet -when it was leaving Esbjerg (on the south-west coast of Jutland). Tliree destroyers were damaged. THE KAISER AMIABLE. BERLIN, 24th August. Emperor Wi'.ham has expressed a wish that the reception of Admiral Wilson's squadron at Baltic porta shall in every sense be cordial and friendly. OFFICERING BRITISH SHIPS. * A FOOLISH AND INIMICAL POLICY. [PEES!) ASSOCIATION^ (Received August 25, 8.52 a.m.) LONDON, 24th August. Mr. Chamberlain, in the course of a letter, declared that it was foolish and inimical to national interests to encourage the officering of British ships by foreigners. The whole subject of manning the mercantile marine demands, in Mr. Chamberlain's opinion, reconsideration. INDIAN TEA SEASON. ' ♦ FINEST FOR TEN YEARS. [I'KESS ASSOCIATION.! j (Received August 25, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 24th August. The Tndian tea season fo" 1 1905 ifi the finest for ten years. Thirty per cent, of the sales from the■bond in London averaged Is per lb. CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. « EXODUS FROM ENGLAND, [PBESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received August 25, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 24th August. Tha Salvation Army has sent four thousand people to Canada this year. The Army authorities expect to send ten thousand next year. INSURRECTION IN BORNEO. « DUTCH AND NATIVES IN CONFLICT. TWO BATTLES FOUGHT. [rHESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received August 25, 10.10 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Details of the insurrection in South Borneo have reached here by steamer. The Suftan of Boni, it appears, rebelled, and the Sultan of Gau supported him. The rising was caused through the Dutch imposing trading restrictions, and on the natives refusing to pay, a Dutch force, including marines .totalling 4000, assisted by four warships, proceeded against the natives. Two battles were fought, in both of which the Dutch were successful. Fighting is still going on. The impression in Batavia is that the Dutch will be successful in the pitched battles, but the natives will retire inland and a guerilla warfare be earned on In one battle it is stated that 260 natives and 14 Dutch were killed. N.S.W. LAND ENQUIRY. LAND AGENTS' EMOLUMENTS. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] SYDNEY, 24th August. At the sitting of the Lands Commission to-day evidence was given of a number of further large fees having been paid to land agents, including, in one case, a sum of £1000 to W. N. Willis, and in another £700 to Peter Close (whose name cropped up in connection with the allegations on the 15th insfc.). (Received August 25, 9.44 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A witness befoie the Land Commission gave evidence that after a long delay and two failures to obtain leases he paid W. N. Willis £1000, and then got the land quickly. SWIMMING. «»> ATTEMPTS TO NEGOTIATE THE CHANNEL. [press association.l (Received August 25, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 24th August. Miss Annette Kellerman (the Australian swimmer) and Burgess and Horace Mew started to swim from Dover to Calais at 7 o'clock. Miss Kellerman was two miles ahead, but later shft withdrew owing to seasickness. When Miss Kellerman succeeded in swimming from Dover to Ramsgatc in the record time of 4h 20m her piospects of negotiating the Channel were regarded in a favourable light Though the Australian aspirant for Channel honours at the outset distinguished herself in short and middle diatance event* by winning a, 100 yards and 440 yards, and establishing a ladies' world's record (lmin 18sec) for the former distance, she preferred endurance swimming, and, beginning with a mile in a. bath in 52min 29sec, covered 2| miles in the Yarra in 46min 30 3-ssec, and in the same stream, no further back than February lust, MiSH Kellermann traversed Cv 6 milco in Hi 48min 34 3-ssec, following up a month or two Inter with 10^ milca in 4h 52min. After the veiy thorough preparation she had undergone it is to be regretted that Miss Kellermann had, to relinquish her effort owing to mal' do mer — an affliction that has troubled a number of other swimmers who have essayed the Channel swim.