VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1909, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received July 10, 8.25 a.m.) FRENCH STABLEMEN'S STRIKE. PAR^ 9th July. Ninety-six racehorse owners met at the residence of Prince Murat, and appointed a committee to negotiate with the stable boys on strike. [A serious riot occurred on the Auteuil racecourse a fortnight ago owing to the strike. The Prince Murat mentioned is a descendant of the famous French General, who married a sister of the first Napoleon.] KAISER AND CHANCELLOR. BERLIN, 9th July. The Kaiser, prior to leaving on his northern cruise, receives Prince Buelow at a farewell audience. AMERICAN TARIFF BILL PASSED. WASHINGTON, 9th July. The Senate, by 45 votes to 34, passed the Tariff Bill. BREAKING NEW GROUND. BUENOS AIRES, 9th July. Messrs. Ellis and Kislingbury have registered a. new Patagonia company, W itll a capital of £70,000, to carry on business as preservers and canners of meat, fruit, and tallow in Patagonia and Argentina. OBITUARY. PARIS, 9th July. The Marquis de Gallifet, General, and ex-Minister of War, is dead. [The General, who was 79 years of age, served in the Crimea and in the Italian war of 1859, in which he was four times wounded, in Algeria, and in the Franco-Prussian war, when he was taken prisoner at Sedan. He was appoited Member of the Council of War in 1882, and Minister of War in 1899. He has published a volume of "Souvenirs."] SYDNEY, 9th July. The death is announced of the Right , Rev. James Murray, D.D., Roman j Catholic Bishop of Maitland. [The deceased prelate — an Irishman by birth — was in his 82nd year, and, according to date of consecration, was the oldest Catholic bishop in Australia. Entering the priesthood in 1852, he served as private secretary to Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, from 1854 to 1865, when he was appointed to the Bishopric of Maitland. He celebrated the golden jubilee of his priesthood in 1902.]