VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 5, 6 July 1906, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[KttESS ASSOCIAriON.j (Recoived July 6, 9 a.im) BOOKMAKERS FINED. LONDON, sth July. Thirty-one bookmakers at Stockton wero fined £157 for ctreet betting. NATURALISED CANADIANS. OTTAWA, sth July. Ten thousand settlers, mostly from the United States, were naturalised in Canada last year. ELECTRICAL ENERGY. CAPETOWN, sth July. Eloctricianu arc discussing the establishment of a power station at Voreeniging to transmit energy to the Rand, yielding a yearly return of £850,000. The estimated"* cost of the work in £780,000, CHINESE COOLIES. LONDON, sth July. General Booth has sent a message to the workers of Britain urging them to induce the Governmont to get rid of the Chinese coolies on the Rand and open (.ho mines to Englishmen, whom the Boers will welcome. THE LATE RAILWAY DISASTER. LONDON, sth July. Queen Alexandra, through the United States Ambassador, has oxpresßed her heartfelt sorrow at the terrible railway catastrophe at Salisbury the other day, when several Americans were killed. Her Majesty expresses deepest sympathy wjth the bereaved, especially mentioning tho young widow, Mils. Coasitt. JAPAN AND CHINA. TOKIO, sth July. In reference to the entry of Japanese goods into Dalny duty free, the Japanese Government states that it is ready to allow China to establish a Customs station at Dalny when that port is open to foreign commerce. At present the port is under military control. MEAT INSPECTION LEGISLATION. NEW YORK, sth July. The United States Secretary of Agriculture has announced that under the new meat-inspection law Government supervision is extended from pasture to package. The Federal stamp on a tin will be an absolute gnarantee that the product is healthy and prepared under sanitary surroundings without deleterious preservatives. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP. LONDON, 6th July. H. L. Doherty retains tho lawn tennis championship, having beaten F. L. Rjsley by three sets to one. PLAGUE tN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, This Day. Five plague-infected rats and mice have been found in tho vicinity of tlho Darling wharves. SHEARING SEASON. ' SYDNEY, This Day. Tho annual report of the Pastoralists' Union states that a- peaceful .and satisfactory shearing season is expected throughout New South, Wales. MESSAGE FROM SIR J. G. WARD. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Postmastler-General has received a cable message from Sir Joseph Ward, which was apparently despatched an midAtlantic Ocean from the- liner Majestic. Mr. Chapman understands that the Marconigram was passed from one steamer to another until it reached the Marconi stb,tion at Crookhaven. t NEWCASTLE COAL. SYDNEY, This Day. One million seven hundred thousand tons of coal wore exported from Newcastle during the past half year — an increase of 295,000 tons compared with the previous half year. The value is estimated at £694,000. THE STEAMER GLAUCUS. MELBOURNE/ This Day. Owing to the rough sea the steamer Glaucus is still sheltering in Refuge Bay. A tug is standing' by. A VALUABLE ESTATE. MELBOURNE, This Day. The estate of the lato George Lansell, "tttiG Australian Quartz King," has been vulued for probate at £,339,000.

A meeting of tho Hutt River Board waß held last night, and waa attended by Menu's. W. G. Foster (chairman), R. Stevens, A. Potere, and T. W. M'Donald. Mra. Seddon wrote thanking tho board for its expression of sympathy in connection with the death of her husband. Tho_ foreman of ■works recommended that during the present season willows should be plnnted along the river banks. He reported that tho recent freshes in tho river had not done any damage to the prolectivp worka. His recommendation was adopted. Accounts amounting to over £800 were passed for payment. Special shoo prices far onn woolc only avo announced by Messrs. R. Hannah and Co., Limited, Lambtou-quay and Oubsistreet, " "