VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1906, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received June 19, 8.43 a.m.) CUTLERY FRAUDULENTLY STAMPED. OTTAWA, 18th June. The. Ontario Silver Plating Company at the Niagara Falls has been fined 600 dollars at the Welland county sessions on a charge of fraudulently stamping its cutlery with the word "Sheffield." THE EGYPTIAN RIOT. LONDON, 18th June. The Daily Mail's account of the Tantah incident, in which five British officers entered a village with the object of shooting pigeons, and were surrounded and assaulted by villngers, has been officially confirmed. Tho district lias a bad reputation as regards anti-European feeling. [Tho Daily Mail's Cairo correspondent states that the village notables had invited the officers to some pigeon-shooting. The villagers interfered, and tried to disarm tho officers. The threshing-floor at that moment happened to take fire, the natives unjustifiably blaming and attacking tho officerr.] PIGJCON SHOOTING. LONDON, 18th June. D. Macintosh, the Australian pigeon shot, won £100 and the Challenge Cup at the- Gun Club competition, and £80 at other competitions. THE NATAL INSURRECTION. PIETERMARITZBURG, 18th June. Lieutenant Marsden has succumbed to wounds received in recent fighting in Natal. Siganandi's sons and a number of important natives have surrendered. Most of Bainbaata's indunas have been killed. A BOMB OUTRAGE. MELBOURNE, This Day. A bomb was thrown into the yard of a man named Baker at Rutherglen. Baker had just entered the house from the yaid. The bomb made a large hole in the ground. Mr. Baker's son and daughter had a narrow escape. THE RABBIT EXPERIMENTS. ™ va S YDNE Y, ThisDaj, me JJeaeral Government has given the necessary permision for the breaking of the seals on the jars containing Dr. Danysz's microbes for exterminating rabbite. SCULLING. SYDNEY, 18th June. Durnan the Canadian sculler, writes that if Town« beats Stunbury in the forthcoming race, he will go to England and row Towns If Stanbnry wins he will come to Australia and row Stanbury. POLICE RAID. SYDNEY, 18th June. One of tho«e arrested in Saturday's raid on the States Sporting Club has been fined fifty pounds, and twenty-four others £5 each. , PACIFIC CABLE. SYDNEY, 18th June. The Pacific Cable Company has opened an office in the city for the transaction of business directly with the public.