VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 59, 7 September 1905, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.! SENSATION AT MOSCOW. (Received September 7, 8.48 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 6th September. A sensation has been caused at Moscow by M. Kbatmsky, a volunteer in the Dragoon Regiment, and a. nephew of Madame de Witte, committing suicide after killing his mistress. THE CHOLERA OUTBREAK. BERLIN, sth September. A garrison of fifty at Konigsberg has been isolated owing, it is supposed, to an outbreak of cholera. REVOLUTIONARY SENTENCED. CONSTANTINOPLE, 6th September. An Armenian named Vartanian, a naturalised American, has been sentenced to death at Stamboul for killing Apik Undjian, a wealthy Armenian, for declining to contribute to the revolutionary funds. Vartanian is an emissary of the Armenian revolutionaries in America. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. LONDON, 6th September. The cruiser Pioneer (2200 tons) relieves the Mildura on the Australian Station. The Psyche haa been recommissioned for another term. AUSTRALIAN SWIMMER IN ENGLAND. LONDON, 6th September. Kieran swam 500 yard 3at Southport in 6min. A COMMERCIAL CONFERENCE. BRUSSELS, September 6. A conference -of delegates from the British and Belgian Associations of Chambers of Commerce is being held at Liege. A resolution was passed protesting against the proposal of a Select Committee in Cape Colony to largely increase the taxation on imported manufactured goods. A BRUTAL MURDER. BRISBANE, This Day. The body of a man named Lumberg has been found in a, camp aear Cairns, brutally hacked about. Kanakas are suspected of committing 'the murder. A CHURCH DISPUTE. BRISBANE, This Day. The members of the Primitive Methodist Church have issued writs against the Methodist Church claiming the property they held at 'fhe 'time of the union. A considerable amount is involved throughout the State. The Methodists state ■that they tried every means -to come 'to an agreement with the Primitive Methodists] but failed. A Bill dealing with the matter lias been issued in Parliament. [The union of the Australian Methodist Churches which was consummated some years ago included the Primitive Methodist Church, which in this colony is still a separate body. As in all such cases there was a •minority that disapproved of the union, and it would seem that 'they contemplate following the example of >the Free Church minority in Scotland, which has caused so much trouble and heartburning in that country.] DROWNING FATALITY. MELBOURNE, This Day. A boy named Andrew, six years of age, was drowned wfiile trying to save his 'brother, aged eight, who was rescued. FEDERAL CAPITAL SITE. SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. Deakin, the Federal Premier, agrees to Mr. Carruthera's proposal to refer the capital site dispute to the High Court. [Mr. Carruthers contends thit tho selection of a japital site at Dalgety ■will involve a coat of £2,000,000 to provide proper railway facilities. Tho Constitution, ho save, never contemplated taking nine hundred square •miles of territory, which was equivalent to the confiscation of New South Wales territory, while the desire to secure a seaport would penalise the State owing to the loss of Customs duties. In a (memorandum issued in April 'last the Now South Wales Premier pointed out tho eligibility of the Lyndhuret, Tumut, and Yaes sites.] AGRICULTURAL SHOW. MELBOURNE, This Day. M the Royal Agricultural Show the championships were allotted as follows : Stallions, Mr. Gibson's Lord Dundonald ; Suffolk Punches, Mr. Wrathall's Tar'luin; Trotters, Mr. Sharp's Almont Boy. COLOURED LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, This Day. Tho responsibility for the publication of Mr. Hunt' 6 report favouring coloured labour in the Northern Territory, which has been adversely criticised in tho Federal Parliament, lies -with the State Government. Tho report was 'handed to tho Ministers for their information, and they decided to lay it on th-e table of Parliament. A MARKET IN JAPAN. SYDNEY. 6th September. The Government's Commercial Agent in Japan advises that owing to damage caused to crops by rain Japan will require to make large importations of wheat.