VARIOUS GABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 80, 1 October 1901, Page 5

VARIOUS GABLED ITEMS.

1 [PBESB ASSOCIATION. J (Eeceived October 1, 10 a.m.) BOOM IN THE NEWCASTLE COAL TRADE. NEWCASTLE, N.S.W., 30th Sept. The coal exported from Newcastle during the nine months ended with September amounted to 2,373,000 tons, an increase of 177,000 tons as compared wilh the corresponding period last year. New Zealand took nearly 30,000 tons more. NEW SOUTH WALES BUTTER. SYDNEY, This Day: The New South Wales Government is promoting a competition in butter for export, offering substantial prizes. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. SYDNEY, This Day. „ The steamer Tanglin has arrived hqre. She takes aboard a number of Esquimaux dogs and a quantity of Westport coal for the German Antarctic Expedi^ tion, which she meets at Kerguelen Island, in the Southern Indian^ Ocean. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. PARIS, \ 30th September. A boiler on tho French torpedo boat Algiers exploded, killing one man and injurying five others. BULL-FIGHTING UP TO DATE. PARIS, 30th September. At a bull-fight* held at Bayonne, a town in the south-west of France, a red automobile was used instead of horses. The bull refused to face the motor. BAD WEATHER IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, 30th September. There has been an extensive snowfall in the highlands, with a bitterly cold south-westerly wind, accompanied by coastal storms and rough seas. GERMAN TROOPS IN CHINA. SHANGHAI, 30th September. The German garrison here will shortly be withdrawn. AN AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION. LONDON, 30th September. Seventeen Russians, at the expense of their Government, are visiting England, inspecting the agricultural produce import arrangements in the hope of being able to supplant Danish and German middlemen. EXECUTION FOR MURDER. BRISBANE. 30th September. John Reuben was executed to-day for the murder at Rockhampton in June last of Fanny Hardwick. Death was instantaneous.

The Superintendent of t"he Mount View Asylum acknowledges the receipt of a parcel of illustrated papers from Mr. A. H. Bell, of Qreatford, for the use of the inmates. It's football that Works tip the musale, And gives a man plenty of dash, It's kick, it'B scrum, and it's buatle, And a general looking for lash. In the good old hunt for the leather, If a cold you should have to endure, You will soon pull yourself altogether, With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. — Advt