VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION]

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 20 July 1905, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION]

(Received July 20, 9.12 a.m.) PROTECTING THE THAMES EMBANKMENT. LONDON", 19fch July. Tli© House of Lords rejected the County Council's Overbridge Tramway* Bill by 64 votes to 33, mainly with the desire to prevent the spoiling of the Thames Embankment. DAMAGES AWARDED. LONDON, 19th July. Tho King's Bench has awarded the Ward, Lock Company £650 damages from the Operative Printers' Assistance Society for inducing workmen to break their contracts. AFFAIRS IN SAMOA. BERLIN, 19th July. It is officially stutedut Berlin that tho political development in Samoa does not cause concern. TURKEY'S DEFENCES. CONSTANTINOPLE, 19th July. Despite prcpsuro on the part of Russia to desist, the Porte continues to mount heavy guns on tho Kavalu. forls (opposite the island of Thasos, in the jEgean THE TATURA TRAGEDY. (Received July 20, 10.9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Edwards has been found guilty of manslaughter, nnd remanded for sentence. _ [The accused man was charged with murdering William Skinner at Tatura. According to a, statement published yesterday, Edwards stated in evidence that he laughed at some gambling losses sustained by Skinner. The latter thereupon attacked him with a shovel, and he (accused) struck Skrnner with, an axe in self-defence, killing him instantly. In terrible distress! lie cut up, the body to .•got rid. of it,]