VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 92, 18 April 1902, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received April 18, 10.15 a.m.) THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH. LONDON, 17tU April. Tho Bishop of Peterborough (Right Rev. Dr. Carr Glyn), who was severely injured on Tuesday by being throwD from his horse, is now conscious, and is progrossing satisfactorily. THE CRIMES ACT IN IRELAND. LONDON, 17th April. Nino counties iv Ireland, and the boroughs of Cork and Waterford, whore tho Irish League has been active, nave been proclaimed undor the Crimes Act. GERMAN DUTY ON FROZEN MEAT. BERLIN, 17th April. Tho Customs Committee of the Reichstag Mis raised tho duty on frozen meat to 45 marks per double hundredweight, GIFT TO A. UNIVERSITY. LONDON, 17th April. Mr. William Waldorf Astor has given £20,000 to endow a professorship at University College, 'London. THE PRICE OF CONSOLS. LONDON, 17th April. Consols are quoted at 93jj. [As compared with the price cabled on Monday this quotation marks a sharp fall — £1 2s 6d — due probably to the placing on the market of the new war loan.] DROUGHT IN QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, 17th, April. To-day was observed as a day of special prayer for rain. Tho services in all the churches wero largely attended. THE WRECK OF THE KINGSLEY. SYDNEY, 17th April. The boat containing tho captain, mate and engineer of the wrecked steamer Kingsley is safe. WELL-MERITED PUNISHMENT. -SYDNEY, 17th April. The man Bottrell, who attempted to murder his wife by soaking her in korosene and then setting fire to her,. burning her terribly, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. Tho couple wero well-known blind street singers. CHINESE IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, 17th April. The Sonate has passed Senator Platts's Bill to continue the exclusion of the Chinese.