VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 104, 30 October 1900, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

»—:» — : [PBESS ASSOCIATION.]. TRADES UNIONISTS IN PARIS. PARIS, 29fch October. Two hundred French trade unions, repre r senting two million members, welcomed, the British trade delegates to Paris, and protested that they desired a maintenance of peace between the two countries. THE NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTRY. SYDNEY, 29th October. The Hon. B. R. Wise, Attorney-General, resjgns his s6at for Ashfield in the Legislative Assembly to-morrow, having been appointed second Government representative in the Council, with a view to expediting Ministerial measures in that Chamber. THE ARREST OF SIPIDO. LONDON, 29th October. The youth Sipido, who shot at the Prince of Wales, was armed when arrested iv Paris. He resisted fiercely, and uttered threats against the King of Belgium. (Received October 30, 9.^0 a.ni.) THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT WALHALLA. MELBOURNE, This Day. The mother of the children who wero killed by a tree falling across a house at "Walhalla, 120 miles from this city, is deadFLOODS IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. LONDON, 29th October. There hftve been severe gales and floods in the north of England. A train was derailed at the River Tyne, and the passengers rescued in upats. A HUGE STORE OF GOLD. WASHINGTON, 29th October. The gold in the United States Treasury totals ninety millions sterling. This is the largest gold fund in the Avorld.

A meeting of Kilbirnie ratepayers to consider important matters is convened for Thursday evening at Heginbotham's Hall. •