VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 143, 18 June 1906, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

■ "O—— . IPBES3 ASSOCIATION.) (Received June 18, 8.30 a.m.) RED CROSS CONFERENCE GENEVA, 17th June. The Red' Cross Conference, which is sitting here, has resolved that it is desirable eveTy belligerent should be distinctively marked in order to facilitate the identification of casualties. GODF CHAMPIONSHIP. LONDON, 17th June. James Braid won tho British golf championship, -with a total score of 300. [J. Braid won tho open championship last year with a score of 318. J. H Taylor and Rowland Jones tied for second place.] EAST END ALIENS. LONDON, 17th June. In connection with the commission tk> General Booth to send to a foreign country ten thousand East End aliens, it has now transpired that) the offer emanated from private sources in Argentine, Brazil, and Chili. General Booth is selecting and assorting emigrants for agricultural ot industrial employment. CUSTOMS CONVENTION. CAPETOWN, 16th June. The Cape Legislative Council, by 14 votes to 11, accepted the Customs* Convention, but added a rider regretting the inclusion of tho principle of preference, SHOOTING INCIDENT IN EGJTPT, LONDON, 16th June. The Daily Telegraph's Cairo correspondent states that Captain Bull, of the Inniskillings (who succumbed to injuries received through British offlceTs being surrounded near Tantah and fired on whilst shooting pigeons, jm the march of a body of troops from Cairo to Ales= andria), shot a pigeon near a stack of dried forage, which blazed up. Thereupon ft woman in charge of the farm screamed, giving an alarm. The villagers tried to disarm the five British officers, who had entered the village. On the troops arriving they shot a native who was supplying Captain Bull with wateT. FATAL CASE OF PLAGUE. SYDNEY, This Day. The cisc of plague at Waterloo has terminated fatally. CLOSER SETTLEMENT. SYDNEY, This Day. The SWate is purchasing the Gobbagumbolin Estate at Wagga, consisting of 62,000 acres, for closer settlement. MILITARY APPOINTMENT. It is practically certain that Colonel Hoad will succeed Major-General Finn as Inspector-General of the Commonwealth military forceß. , [Colonel Hoad, who is 50 years of age, sewed in the South African war, and was the Commonwealth military attache with tho Japanese army in Manchuria in 1904.] THE STEAMER MAHENO. SYDNEY, 16th June. The Maheno completed her passage from Vancouver to Sydney in twentyone days fifteen hours. SPORTING CLUB RAIDED. SYDNEY', 17th June. The police' raided the States Sporting Club, Pitt-street, and arrested twentysix persons. VETERAN SCULLERS' RACE. SYDNEY I, 17th June. The veteran scullers' race is fixed for 4th August. Beach, Kemp, M'Lean, Green, Rush, Laycock, • Clifford, and Pearce have accepted for the event. DEATH OF A VETERAN CRICKETER. ' SYDNEY, 17th June. Mr George Gilbert, tho veteTan criciceter, is dead. He captained the first New South Wales team against Victoria. The deceased was a cousin of W. G. Grace.