VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 140, 14 June 1906, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[fbess association.] (Received June 14, 8.30 a.m.) A WELL-KNOWN ACTOR ILL. LONDON, 13th June. Mr. J. L. Toole, the well-known actor, is dangerously ill. ALIEN TAILORS ON STRIKE. LONDON, 13th June. Thousands of East End alien tailors have struck against sweating. DEATH OF A BALLARAT PIONEER. • LONDON, 13th June. Dr. James StewaTt, one of the pioneers of Ballarat, is dead, aged 82 years. He had resided in England forty years. His estate in England is valued atl £200,000. Many bequests have been Tnade to charitable, educational, and religious institutions in Melbourne and Ballarat. IRISH LAND STOCK. LONDON, 13th June. Seven million 2% per cent. Irish land stock is being issued at a minimum of £89. ' ARGENTINE VICE-CONSUL. LONDON, 13th June. Mr. Thomas Fergus has been gazettted Argentine Vice-Consul at Dunedin. [Mr. Fergus was Minister of Justice and Defence in the Atkinson Ministry.] BALTIMORE DOCKS DESTROYED. NEW YORK, 13th June. The' great Baltimore docks have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated* at 800,000 dollars. BOER EMIGRANTS. CAPETOWN, 13th June. Owing to the condition of the Boers in Argentine, Dr. Jameson, Premier of the Cape Colony, is trying "to- dissuade others from emigrating. THE BATTLESHIP MONTAGU. LONDON, 13th June. The Admiralty authorities hope to save the battleship Montagu, which went ashore at Shulter Point on the 31st May. THE FIRE ON THE PERTHSHIRE. LONDON, 13th June. The fire on the Perthshire was con- [ fined to hold 4 and between decks. MR. ROOSEVELT'S DAUGHTER. LONDON, 13th June. King Edward attended a dinner given b-y Mr. Whitlelaw Reid, American Ambassador to Britain, in honour of Mrs. Longworth, President Roosevelt's daughter. Queen Alexandra, being in deep mourning owing to the death of her father, King Christian of Denmark, did not accompany the King. STEAMER REFLOATED. LONDON, 13th June. The Atlantic liner Western Land, which grounded at Cape May, New Jersey, has been refloated. MISS TERRY'S JUBILEE. LONDON, 13th June. Nearly £6000 was raised ati llTss Ellen Terry's jubilee matinee performance. Many people waited from twenty-four to thirty hours at the doors. THE MADRID OUTRAGE. MADRID, 13th June. Three more have died from the effects of the bomb outrage on the occasion of the marriage of King Alfonso and Princess Ena. MINERS' DISPUTE. NEWCASTLE, This Day. In consequence of the strike of clippers following on t)hat of the wheelers at the Pelaw Main CollieYy, the owners have decided that unless the men return to work this afternoon they will shut down the mine.