VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph • -I'resa Association.— Copyright. (Received April 12, 9 a.m.) MILLIONAIRE IMPRISONED. BRUSSELS, 11th April. An American, arested on a publican's complaint, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on a charge of vagrancy. Later ho was proved to be a millionaire and was at once lcleased. PLAGUE IN JAVA. l AMSTERDAM, 11th April. Two cases of pneumonic plague are reported at Making, Java. EARL OF CREWE. LONDON, lltK April. The Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for India, who has been indisposed for some time as the result of a fall, is now convalescent. He is recruiting his ! health in Italy. GENERAL BADEN-POWELL. LONDON, 11th April. It is definitely arranged that General R. Baden-Powell will commence his lecturing tour id 1912. MURDER AT CANTON. PEKIN, 11th April. The assassin of the Tartar General at Canton is a member of the Reform Society, who was repatriated from Singapore. ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER. SYDNEY, 11th April. The steamer Brisbane, a vessel of 1119 tons gross, belonging to the Melbourne Steamship Company, on leaving Port Kembla with fifteen hundred tons of coal aboard, grounded on a reef at. high tide, and remained hard and fast for some hours. After several futile attempts had been made to tow the vessel she came off under her own steam, and returned to port. The damage has not yet been ascertained. CHINESE PORK FOR, ENGLAND. LONDON, 11th April. Mr. John Burns, President of the | Local Government Board, has informed Mr. A. Fell, Unionist member for Great Yarmouth, regarding the import J ing of Chinese pork, cargoes of -which have been received of late, that he hoped the Local Government Board doctor, now in China, would visit the localities wh&re the pigs were bred and the pork was prepared. GENERAL BOOTH. LONDON, 11th April. The Queen has sent General Booth birthday , greetings, and expressed the hop© that he may long bo spared to continue his work.' [General Booth was born tifc Nottingham on 10th April, 1829. As Com- I mander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army, and director of its bocial institations for the destitute, vicious, and criminal classes, the Geneva l , whose health has besn bad of late, has led a very strenuous life. He has five times visited the United States and Canada, three times Australasia and South Africa, twice India, ones Japan, and wweral times almost every country in Europe.] DR. JOHNSON'S HOUSE. LONDON, 11th April. Mr. Cecil Hannsworth suggests Dr. Johnson's house in Gough-squaro, which he (Mr. Harrnsworth) is presenting to the nation, should bo converted into a Johnsoniaa Museum. A COLLISION. PERTH, This Day. A collision between trucks that were being shunted occurred at Clyde. Three trucks were smashed. ANCIENT ABORIGINAL BURYING GROUND. ADELAIDE, This Day. An. extensive 'ancient aboriginal burying ground has been discovered. It will be of immense interest to anthropologists. THE QUEENSLAND FLOODS. BRISBANE, This Day! Mail communication, by pack-horse, has been, established with the floe 3 districts, pending railway repairs.