VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April IV, 9 a.m.) ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. BERLIN, 16th April. At Association football, England and Germany played a drawn game, scoring, two goals each. (Received April 17, 10 a.m.) HIGH-PRICED STALLION. SYDNEY, This Day. The two-year-old Victorian Clydesdale stallion Royal Scotch was sold for 500 guineas. (Received April 17, 10.10 a.m.) RACING BOATS DESTROYED. MELBOURNE, This Day. A train conveying boats to the Bairnsdale regatta caught fire, and before the outbreak was extinguished 'three racing boats were destroyed. DANGERS OF AVIATION. PARIS, 15th April. Reuter reports that Lieutenant Byasson, while monoplaning at Versailleswas crushed to death through his machine somersaulting. (Received April 17, 9 a.m.) VANCOUVER, 16th April. Jack Depries, an aviator, was landing from- a flight here when his machine overturned, and he fell, fracturing his ekull. He will probably die. (Received April 17, 9.25 a.m.) HEAVY RAIN. SYDNEY, This Day. There was further heavy rain last -night, and tho weather is still threatening and showery. Heavy falls of rain have broken the dry spell in the coastal districts. SOCIALISTS AND NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY, This Day. The annual report of the Socialist Labour Party expresses satisfaction at the establishment of a branch of the party in New Zealand. INTER-STATE BOWLING. SYDNEY, This Day. At bowls, Victoria beat New South Wales in the second game by 98 to 94. SYDNEY SHOW. ■ SYDNEY, 16th April. The attendance at the show on Saturday was 46,000, and the takings to dato are over £1100 ahead of those for the corresponding period of last year. PLAGUE. PEKIN. 15th April. Dr. Petrie, one of the delegates Lo the Plague Conference, discovered thirty-six very large fleas on twelve marmots (the largest living representatives of the squirrel family). The discovery its regarded as important, ac it may possibly sugest the method of transmission of plague to human beings. [Dr. G. E. Morrison, The Times's Pekin correspondent, writing to The j Times from Harbin, Manchuria, last month, reported that the outbreak was traceable to marmots, which were I formerly hunted by Burials and other Mongols, who recognised the infected animals and left them severely alone. Recently inexperienced Chinese hunters had entered the trade, with disastrous j results. The diseaso manifests itself after the hunters' return for the winter. The hunters eat the marmots, but there | k no direct intestinal infection.] | LORD HALDANE. I LONDON, 15th April. Lord Haldano has been appointed a ! member of the Judicial Committee of ths Privy Council, in succession to Lord James of Hereford, who has resigned. Lord Haldane will thus be entitled to J adjudicate on legal cases in the House of Lords. [Lord James of Hereford was educated at Cheltenham College, being the first | boy on the Toll. He was called to the ; Bar in 1852, and was made a Q.C. in 1869. In 1873 he was appointed Solici- ! tor-General, and in the same year At- j torney-General. From 1895 to 1902 he was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was born on 30th October, 1828.] RECENT MASSACRE IN ASSAM. ! CALCUTTA, 16th April, i Uncertainty exists as to the fate of Dr. Gregorson, the companion of Mr. Noel Williamson, a British political officer, who, with others of the party, was murdered at Sadiyo, Assam, by Abar tribesmen. A force consisting of 200 Ghurkas and a company of Ma-hrat-tas is being despatched to tho Abar country. PENNY POSTAGE IN AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, 16th April. The Federal Executive has approved of a proclamation bringing penny postage into operation throughout Australia; also, under special arrangements, with Britain and the Dominions, from let May. ACTRESS MARRIES AN EGYPTIAN PRINCE. LONDON, 16th April. Miss - Ola Humphreys, the well-known actress, has been married to Prince Ibrahim Hassan, a cousin of the Khedive. [Miss Humphreys, an American actress, is known in New Zealand. She played with companies under the auspices of Mr. J. C. Williamson.] UNITED STATES AND ASIATICS. ■WASHINGTON, 16th April. In the United States House of Representatives, Mr. Hayes, a member for California, has introduced a Bill to exclude sil Asiatics from the United State*.