CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[press association.! (Received June 16, 8.32 a.m.) ' ZULU CHIEF'S DEATH. PIETERMARITZBURG, 15th June. It is officially reported that the Zulu chief Bambaata, was killed on the 10th inst., and that his body has been identified. DEPORTING ALIENS. LONDON, 15th June. General Booth has been commissioned j to send to a foreign country ten thousand East End aliens, who cannot speak English. They are promised religious and political freedom. SWIMMING. LONDON, 15th June. Miss Kellerman, the Australian swimmer, swam 6even kilometres on the Danube in 3hra llmin 20sec, defeating Madame leacesen, an Austrian competitor. 1 Congo free state. LONDON, 15th June. Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, in reply to Mr. J. C. Wedgwood, M.P. for Newcastle-nnder-Lyme, stated that Britain recognised the independence of the Congo State. Britain's rights of intervention, he said, consisted of seeing that treaty obligations were observed. These could nob be affected by any subsequent declaration on the part of the King of the Belgians, whose letter against the power of intervention could not alter the obligations. SARAH BERNHARDT. NEW YORK, 15th June. Sarah Bernhardt's profits for two hundred and twenty-seven performances in America amount to £6000. BOOKMAKER FINED. LONDON, 15th June. A Birmingham bookmaker has been fined £300 and 'costs for using a house for the purposes of betting. Ten thousand betting papers were found in the house. WHEELERS' STRIKE ENDED. SYDNEY, This Day. t The -wheelers' strike at Wallsend hais concluded, and work will be resumed on Monday. An adva-nco of an eighth of a penny per ton has been conceded to workers. PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION. SYDNEY, Thia Day. Mr. Jenkinson (Auckland) obtained several prizes at the Broken Hill photographic exhibition Messrs. Leodham (Auckland) and Delissa (Christchitrch) also successfully competed. Victorian bye-election. MELBOURNE, This Day.. At the bye-election for Barwon, the Labour candidate, despite strenuous efforts, was beaten by Mr. Farrer, a Ministerialist. MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. Steyn, brother of ex-President Steyn, with two other farmers from Orangia, have arrived to inspect stations and purchase sheep for re-stocking purposes foi that colony. Mr- Steyn states that it will probably be two years befo.3 South Africa can produce her own meat supply As to political affairs there was no danger in granting responsible government. He added that there was complete friendliness between the British and the Boers. LABOUR DEPARTMENT ORGANISATION. MELBOURNE, This Day. It appears now that it is not Mr, Tregear. But his second in command, who is to visit Victoria in connection with the organisation of the Labour Department. SEISMOGRAPHIC RECORDS. SYDNEY, 15th June. On Ist June the Seismograph Observatory recorded a severe earth tremor at 2.50 p.m., but no record has been received of any shock in other localities. A peculiar feature is that the boom of the instrument, which was displaced by the shock, now points two milimetres further to the eastward. This indicates that the crust of the earth at this spot has assumed a new level RABBIT EXTERMINATION. MELBOURNE, 15th June. The House of Representatives decided that Dr. Danysz's experiments for the extermination of rabbits "must not extend beyond the laboratory until it is concltt-' sively proved that they are not inimical to other live stock.