VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 90, 18 April 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 18, 9 a.m.) HYDROPHOBIA IN SPAIN. MADRID, 17th April. • There ia an epidemic of hydrophobia in the province of Pontevedra and Corunna. Several persons bitten by mad dogs have died. MR. HENNIKER HEATON'S HEALTH. LONDON, 17th April. Mr. Henniker Heaton, ex-M.P, for Can- , terbury, who retired last year, and who has been ill ior some time, is still- very weak, but has slightly improved. THE GLENBANK WRECK. PERTH, 17mi April. The wreck of the Russian barque Gleabank, which capsized 1 on 6th February, has been located inside Legendre Reef, safe from the ocean fairway. [The vessel was loading copper ore at Balla Balla, when a falling barometer caused the captain to put to sea. After sailing for a day the vessel succumbed to the storm tEat had arisen, turning turtle. She had 2800 tons of loose copper aboard. Of the crew of twenty-four only one was saved.] ■KNIGHTHOOD. LONDON, 17th April. A knighthood has been conferred on Mr. Ernest Josc-ph Soares, Liberal M.P. for Barnstaple Division of Devonshire since 1901^ and he has been appointed a Lord of the Treasury. Major the Hon. Henry Guest, Liberal M.P. for East Dorset, succeeds Mr. Soares as Junior Lord of the Treasury, and two by-elections aro thus rendered necessary. [Sir Ernest Soares, M.A., LL.D., waa born in 1864, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He became a solicitor in 1888, and in 1910 was appointed a Junior Lord of the Treasury (unpaid). Major Gue^t, son of Lord Wimborne, was elected for East Dorset in June of last year. He served with the Ist Royal .Dragoons in the South African War, and was mentioned in despatches. From 1907 to 1910 he was Instructor in the Cavalry School.] MURDER AND ROBBERY. ST. PETERSBURG,> 17th April. Two brothers, named Delanin, representing Parisian jewellers^ were murdered in a sleeping car between Baku and Moscow. The robbers shot the brothers, stole some valuable jewellery, and escaped in the darkness when the train was stopped upon the discovery of the murder. , BOWLING FIXTURES POSTPONED. SYDNEY, 17th April. Owing to the continuous rain the bowiing fixtures have been postponed. SYDNEY SHOW. SYDNEY, 17th April. Although the showground is almost a sea of mud, over 20,000 attended the show to-day. PEDESTRIAN CARNIVAL. MELBOURNE, This Day. At the pedestrian carnival at Stawell, Devine, with thirteen yards start, won the chief sprinting event — 120 yards— in 12 2-ssec. Donaldson, the world's champion, was beaten out of place, though he ran the distance in evens. CHINESE FOR TAHITI. BRISBANE, This Day. T!he North German Lloyd steamerCoblenz brought one hundred and two Chinese labourers for Tahiti.