VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 139, 13 June 1906, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

{PRESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received June 13, 8.42 a.m.) A PARACHUTIST KILLED. LONDON, 12th June. Lily Cove, a parachutist, was killed by falling from a great height near Keigh6y 'NEW HEBRIDES QUESTION. LONDON, 12th June. Reuters Port Louis correspondent states that there is much local indignation at Australia's suggestion that Mauritius be exchanged for the New Hebrides. THE KIEL CANAL. BERLIN, 12th June. Owing to the increasing dimensions of warships it is intended to widen and deepen the Kiel Canal at a cost of £2,000,000. A SWIMMING RECORD. LONDON, 12th June. Healy, the well-known swimmer, swam 100 yards at West Ham in 59sec, boing a record. DEDICATION SERVICE. LONDON, 12th June. King Edward and the Prince' of Wales attended the dedication of tho Chapel of the Order of St. Michael and St. George at St. Paul's. THE RECENT TABAH CRISIS. LONDON, 12th June. The Cairo correspondent of the Daily Express states that seventy-five officers in tho Egyptian army have been cashiered for seditious tendencies during tho recent trouble between Turkey and Britain regarding Tabah. INSPECTION OF FOODSTUFFS. LONDON, 12th June. Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, states that he will, if necessary, ask to have legislative powers conferred on the Local Government Board to secure effective inspection of foreign foodstuffs. STEAMER ASHORE. NEW YORK, 12th June. The Atlantic liner Western Land, with somo hundreds of passengers aboard, js ashoro at Cape May, New Jersey. THE MEAT PACKERS' SCANDAL. NEW YORK, 12th June. The Chairman of the House of Representatives' Committee on Agriculture — to which the Senate's Bill dealing with the packers' scandal was referred without discussion — is trying to • emasculate the measure in the interests of the packers. WHEELERS' STRIKE. NEWCASTLE, This Day. The Wallsend Company's wheelers have struck for an increase of tonnage rates. The strike dislocates shipping to some extent. THE SYDNEY TRAGEDY., SYDNEY, This Day. Riley, who is accused of the murder of Rose Arnold, has been declared to be insane. [The tragedy referred fc6 in the above message occurred on the 28th March. Riley, it was statSed, went to his lodgings accompanied by Rose Arnold, a barmaid, who was a friend of the landlord. The girl went up to his room, and the occupants of the house shortly after heard several shots. The door of the room was locked, but on looking through tho window lihe owner of the house saw the girl lying on the floor and Riley looking out into the street calmly smoking a cigarette. Then further firing was heard iv the room. The police on arrival found the woman with four bullet wounds, and her head almost severed by a razor cut. The man was lying by her side wifcl' a bullet wound in the jaw, and his throat cut, but alive. Riley is said to have confessed to the murder.] A 'PROTEST. MELBOURNE, This Day. the Victorian Employers' Federation has passed a resolution regarding the proposed loan of Mr. Tregear to the Labour Department, protesting against his been attached to the Victorian Administration on the ground of his holding extreme Socialistic views.

The corporation is associating itself with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in checking suffering inflicted on horses in the city by overloading. This morning in the Police Court Thomas Cramp was charged on an "information laid under the city bylaws with having loaded a cart with a weight of 2 tons 6cwfc, when it was only licensed to qirry 2 tons. Corpora*tion Inspector Doyle said there was no doubt that the amount of suffering inflicted on animals here was exceedingly great. Drays had gone away from the wharf laden with four tons, and it was very rare indeed to find them carrying a load under the stipulated weight. Drivers argued that they got their loads at the ship's side, and did not know what they weighed. But, said the inspector, they knew the size of their vehicles, and should be ablo to gauge the weight within a couple of cwt. An examination of the Harbour Board's books showed that in ninety-five per cent, of the cases the loads were excessive. Drivers frequently rode on the loads and made the offence of overloading even more distressing. He intended to got rid of this sort of thing as quickly as he possibly could, co they could look out for trouble. - Mr. A. H. Fullford, the presiding Justice, convicted the defendant, who was reported to bo a "well conducted driver," and ordered him to pay 7fl costs. The defendant was represented by Mr. Levvey. Rumours of disaffection amongst the railway workers on the Seddon extension have reached the Marlborough Herald. The workers are dissatisfied with their wages, which work out at a little over eight shillings a day, and the engineer- j in-charge is blamed for incompetency. Our informant predicts a general strike on Monday. There are at present 110 men working between Seddon and Lako Grassmere. If the rumours be well founded, there is little likelinood of additional lubour being obtained for these necessary works. It is interesting to note that tho following advertisement was published in the Blenheim newspapers on Monday evening: — "Applicants for positions on the co-operative railway works at the Seddon and Flaxbourno extension, will be received by the undersigned from this date. The average rate of wages earned daring last month was 8s fid per | working day. '•