LATE CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 75, 31 March 1910, Page 8

LATE CABLE NEWS.

Bj Telegraph.— Presi Association.— Cop) right. SYDNEY SHOW. (Recened March 31, 11.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Thit= Day. Tlie total attendance at the show numbered 252,450, and the takings £11,036, compared with 244,500 and £10,626 last year. STOCK SALES. SYDNEY, This Day. At the show sales, sheep belonging to Mr. Reid, of Oamam, sold as follows : Border Leicester 3 to 5 giu> ; Romney Marshes, 5 to 10 gut*. Rennie (Canterbury) got 4 and 5 gns for hia LeieestersIv cattle, Mr. Fairey, of Nelson, got £26 10s for fat bullocks, and £12 for a cow. Mr. Bourke, of Opaki, secured for four Clydesdales £25 to £39. BOWLING. SYDNEY, This Day. New South Wales defeated the- Queensland Bowling Club, thus winning the rubber. SPURIOUS SOVEREIGNS. SYDNEY, This Day. There is a number of .spurious sovereigns in circulation. The bookmakers at Randwirk were largely victimised. The coins are a good imitation. SMALLPOX. MELBOURNE, This Day. Three additional cases of smallpox are reported amongst the Ot way's quarantined passengers. BUSH FIRES. MELBOURNE, This Day. Destructive bush fires are raging in the Mirboo and Leongatha districts. Much bush and fencing has been destroyed. Several families were burned oat. Some f-pent many hours in tanks. (Received March 31. 12.30 p.m.) KING MEXELIK. LONDON, 30th March. Reuter's Ron;e correspondent repoits that King Menelik of Abyssinia is dead, pther reports confirm the story. FRENCH ELECTIONS. PARIS, 50th March. The French general election will be held on the 24th April. WIRELESS TELEPHONY. PARIS, 30th March. The French navy is adopting wireless telephony. PvOYAL WEDDING. BRUSSELS, 30th March. The newspaper Le Soir states that the marriage of Prince Victor Napoleon and Princess Clementine of Belgium will take place at Farnborough, England, in August next. AMERICAN RAILROAD EMPLOYEES. NEW YORK, 30th March. Thp Pennsylvania Railroad Company has decided to inerea.M? th» wages of 100,000 employees by 6 per cent. SOUTH WALES MINERS. LONDON, 30th March. The Confeience of the Miners' Federation advised the South Wales miners tc accept the owners' modified proposals. BY-ELECTION. LONDON, 30th March. Mr. E. O'Kelly, Nationalist, was elected unopposed for We.st Wicklow. A JUSTIFICATION. LONDON, 30th March. Tno Times publishes a letter from the Bishop of North Queensland (Dr. Fiodshain) to the Church Anti-Vivisection League, justifying his nienibei>-hip of the Research Defence Society.