VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 61, 9 September 1905, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[press association.! (Received September 9, 9.3 a.m.) ANARCHISTS ARRESTED. * ROME, Bth September. Four Anarchists have been arrested for placing boulders on a road at Aosta which Queen Margherita was about to pass. 'GERMANY'S LITTLE WAR. BERLIN, Bth September. News has been received that the rebels in German East Africa have destroyed the towns of Misaiti and Mikindani. THE GERMAN MEAT FAMINE. LONDON, -Bth September. Replying to a suggestion made by the Victorian Agent-General that Australia ■would be able to supply all requirements, the German Consul-General in London stated that the German meat famine was much exaggerated. REINSURING A BARQUE. LONDON, Bth September. Sixty-five guineas per cent, was paid to reinsure the barque Lulla Rookh, -which sailed from Brisbane in March for Fal1 mouth. THE CHOLERA OUTBREAK. BERLIN, Bth September. Of a total of 105 casea of cholera, in Prussia there were 32 deaths. STRIKE IN PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Bth September. Strikers at Rossbach almost demolished a foundry owing to the importation of Alsatian blacklegs. Troops were called in and restored order. TRADE UNION CONGRESS. LONDON, Bth September. The Trade Union Congress at Hanley rejected by a large majority a proposal for an amalgamation of all trades unions sending delegates to the congress "into a ■general federation, and the formation of a Trades Union and Labour Representation Committee. • BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. LONDON, Bth September. The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 12 per cent. The sum of £30,000 has been added to the reserve and £17,000 carried forward. BRITISH IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. LONDON, Bth September. The British imports for August increased £4,423,000, and the exports increased £3,158,000, compared with the previous August. JAPANESE STUDENTS. TOKIO, Bth September. An Imperial edict has been published abolishing the Chinese system of examination for degrees. In future Government officials are to be recruited from students educated on modern lines. The edict advises the despatch of more students to Britain and America. DEATH OF A SUN- WORSHIPPER. I SIDNEY, This Day. Advices form New Britain announce the death of Herr Englehardt, the founder and only surviving member of a fcect of Sunworshippers, who fell jtll and died during his removal from the island of Kabakon, which he had purchased, to a hospital. EPILEPTIC HOSPITALS. ADELAIDE, This Day. The Medical Congress carried a resolution in favour of establishing epileptic hospitals. WHEAT CROPS IN QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, This Day. The wheat ciops are suffering from want of rain. It is feared that unless rain falls shortly a considerable area will bo a failure. AN ORDER FOR LOCOMOTIVES. SYDNEY, Bth September. The Legislative Asembly adopted the motion of the Piemier, Mr. Carruthers, that sixty locomotives wanted for the rail' war be built at tho Clyde engineering works (New South Wales).