Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3546, 13 July 1905, Page 3

Various Cabled Items.

In a match against Hampshire the Australian Cricketers compiled 620 for on* innings. The County replied ■with 239 and 269. The Colonials the* won by an inning* and 112 runs. At the swimming championiship on 4ht Mersey, over a mile course, Keran. thn Australian swimmer, led through•out, end won by 300 yards. Boers are registering for electoral ■privileges in the Transvaal with great zeal, Mr Balfour intends to apply the closure in the House of Commons in connection with the Aliens Bill. Steel rail manufacturers in Europe tnd America have agreed to a mutual division ef the world’s trade, giving each country prior right to supply its home market without competition, and also its own colonies np to certaim quotations. A fire at Toowoomba, Queensland, caused from £7OOO to £ 1 0,000 worth of damage in Jones and Co’s, genera! stores. Two New Zealand insurance offices—the New Zealand and South British—hold risks of £2500 and £ISOO respectively. , ATthe English tennis championships Bretkes (VictonaV beat S. H Smith (England) by three sets to two, and in the doubles semi-final Brookes and Dualnp beat Lamed and Clothier (Americans) by three sets to one. Sir William Neville Abdy, 61 years •ftge, has (just obtained a divorce from his wife on the ground of kdnltery, The parties were married in 1883. Sensational admissions on both sides called forth fromMr Justice Barnes the remark that he did not trooollect a more repulsive case. A heat wave is being experienced in ; Europe. At Heidelberg, in Germany, f*fb* thermometer registered 97 degrees, and at Rome 103—the highest for 74 yMSS. Fatal sunstroke cases are reported from several cities in Italy. Publication in New York of a Government estimate of a 10,500,000 bates crop of cotton caused great excitement in the market. Prices jumped a hundred point in fifteen minutes. Mr Theodore Price made j /soo.ooo in five minutes on Monday, mud th* next halt-hour yielded him /j#|OOO t General Roediger has succeeded General Sakharoff. who was appointed Acting-Minister for War in the Russia® Aministration in February, 1904, When General Kuropatkiu, them Minister, went to th* front. An explosion ot firedamu in a mine at Anderhies (Holland) killed fourteen persons and injured twelve. Two hundred deaths have occurred in Italy as a result of the intense heat experienced during the past week. It is reported at Simla that owing te the unrest among the population in Turkestan and the discontent of the Central Aslan garrisons, the Russian troops on the north bank of the Middle Oxus (or Amu) river has been reduced. Captain Excolessi, an infantry captain in the Italian army, who, with his wife, was arrested at Messina on the ?th July, has beep sentenced to imprisonment lor a term of five years and ten months on a charge ot selling Italian military plans to France, The ptisoncr’B wife was acquitted.