VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1906, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

» [press association.] (Received June 20, 8.30 a.m.) SIR CHARLES TENNANT'S ESTATE. LONDON, 19th June. The late Sir Charles Tennant, who was head of the firm of Charles Tennant and Co., President of the United Alkali Company, and chairman of tho Union Bank of Scotland, left property worth £2,700,000. MEAT INSPECTION. NEW YORK, 19fch June. . The Agricultural Committee of the United States House of Representatives is willing to eliminate the provision in the iLsat BUI authorising the courts to review thp inspectors' decision, and to agree- to allow a Civil Service Commission to furnish inspectors. President Roosevelt does not insist on placing the date of manufacture on the labels. DEATH OF A VALUABLE RACEHORSE. NEW YORK, 19th June. Sysonby, tho famous American racehorse, died from blood-poisoning. The sum of 40,000 guineas was refused for the horse a few months ago. v LESE-MAJESTE. BERLIN, 19th June. The Court of Appeal at Leipzig, in confirming the six months' sentence on the Socialist editor, extended the law of lese-tnaje3te to attempts to depreciate or bring into contempt the ruling of the King's ancestors. The editor pleaded that what he wrote was historical criticism. INSURANCE OFFICIALS ATTACKED LONDON, 19th June. Advices from Amoy state that the Chinese attacked Dr. Home and Mr. P. Eadie, connected with the Mutual Insurance Company. The former was stabbed thrice, and is in a serious condition. Mr. Eadio waa only slightly wounded. MURDERS IN THE CONGO. LONDON, 19th June. Fifteen chiefs at Basoko, in Congo, have been executed tor murdering Congo Free State agents. TENNIS TOURNAMENT. LONDON, 19th June. At tho tennis tournament, England beat America, winning the Davis Cup by five matches to nil. GOOD CRICKET SCORE. LONDON, 19th June. Playing for Lancashire against Somersetshire, Spooner compiled a score- ot 240 runs. THE NATAL RISING. PIETERMARITZBURG, 19th June. Eight of Dinizulu's iudunas have, arrived at Pictermaritzburg, where they are being detained. ' Two hundred and seventy more rebels have surrendered. FAMOUS CHESS PLAYER DEAD. LONDON, 19th June. The death is announced of Mr. Harry N. Pilsbury, the famous chess player. EDUCATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, This Day. • The proposals of the Premier (Mr. Carruthers) for the coming session include making education in the public schools free. This will involve a surrender of £90,000 in revenue. MINERS' DISPUTE. SYDNEY, This Day. The wheelers at the Hetton colliery have struck for an increase of pay. The wheelers and trappers afc the Beahavn pit have given fourteen days' notice of their intention to strike. AUSTRALIAN FLOUR IN CHINA. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Governor of Hongkong has written to Mr. Deakin, the Federal Premier, promising to do all in his power to etop the rebogging of American flour and selling it as Australian. The Customs officials at Hongkong have the matter in hand. RECOGNITION OF LITERATURE. MELBOURNE, 19th June. Mr. Deakin was asked in tho House of Representatives to-day if ho would place a sum on tho Estimates for the families of the lato Mr. John Farrell and Mr. Victor Daley, the well-known journalists and poets. The Prime Minia. ter said that the question of recognising in Australia, as in Britain, the claims of eminent literary men and the families of ltterary men was worthy of consideration. Geniuses were few, and as during their lives they were rarely rewarded by any pecuniary remuneration, ho thought they had a claim for consideration by the Government.