VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1909, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Tclej^-aph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received June 19, 8.20 a.m.) CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, 18th June. There are twelve ( ?) cholera patients in St. -Petersburg. Twenty-four fresh cases were reported yesterday. RUSSIAN .VISITORS TO ENGLAND. ST. PETERSBURG, 18th June. Much gratification is expressed in St. Petersburg at tho announcement that King Edward received the members of the "Duma and tho Council of tho Empire who are visiting England. KING EDWARD'S DERBY WINNER. LONDON, 18th June. King Edward's horse Minor u, at the Ascot Meeting this week, won another race, making the King's total winnings this season £18,577 POLITICAL PARTIES IN GERMANY. BERLIN, 18th June. A powerful political association has been founded in Germany. It is entitled the Hanseatic League, and its object is to safeguard, by aggressive means if necessary, commerce and industry against the advance of the agrarian clement. LABOUR RECRUITS. LONDON, 18th June Lord Crewe, Secretary of Stato for the Colonies, permits the recruiting of 3000 British Central Africa natives for work in the Rand mines. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Melbourne; isth June. A domestic tragedy is -reported from Prahran, a Melbourne suburb. A man j named William Lavor quarrelled with I and shot his wife, and then himself. Both are in a critical condition. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of the trouble. EXCHANGE OF PREACHERS,LONDON, 18th June. Sir Robert William Perks, Treasurer of the London Wesleyan Mission, has initiated a scheme for the interchange of Methodist preachers between Britain and Canada, and for the proper distribution of Methodist immigrants in the Dominion. NATIONAL MORTGAGE CO. LONDON, 18th June. The National ' Mortgage Company, Ltd., haa declared a dividend at the rato of 7i per cent.