VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 116, 13 November 1900, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[press association.] THE TYPHOON AT HONGKONG. LONDON, 12th November. Several British warships dragged their anchors in the bay during the typhoon, which sank H.M.S. Sandpiper. They were in great peril, and would have been lost if the storm had continued another hour. | OBITUARY. SYDNEY, 12th November. . The death is announced of Canon Corlette, a prominent Anglican. THE SHOOTING CASE AT PERTH. PERTH, This Day. Mrs. Joyce, who was shot last week .by her husband, who afterwards shot himself, is dead*. (Received November 13, 9.8 a.m.) PRINCE OF YVAi.x,oS BIRTHDAY, SYDNEY, 12th November. The new system of celebrating the Prince of Wales's Birthday on a Monday, is highly popular. Fine weather prevailed in all the colonies. THE MELANESIAN MISSION. LONDON, 12th November. Lord Brassey (ex-Governor of Victoria), Sir Thomas F. Buxton (ex-Gover-nor of South Australia), and other wellknown men have . made an appeal in. a letter to the Times for £15,000 to fun nish a new steamer for the Melanesian mission. A NEW FIELD GUN. LONDON; 12th November. The Government of the United States has obtained the plans of a new French field gun, supposed to be the "best in the world. (Received November 13, 9.30 a.m.) PARTY POLITICS IN CANADA. OTTAWA, 12th November. The Hon. G. E. Foster, who held the portfolio of Minister of Finance in the last - Conservative Government, has been chosen as Leader of the Opposition in the Dominion House of Oommons, in succession to Sir C. Tupper. THE ELECTIONS IN NEWFOUNDLAND. ST. JOHN'S, 12th November. The Newfoundland general elections resulted in the supporters of the Ministry f owned in. March last by Mr. R. Bond being largely re-elected.