VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 131, 29 November 1902, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

• [press association.] I (Received November 29, 10.20 a.m.) fcj'i'. PEI'EHiSBURG, 28th Nov. Russia is eslubnshnig a Mercantile Marine Dspaumtnt, nud assisting new steamsmp companies with loans lor construction and subsidies. NEW "IOKK, 28th. Nov. An American h learner has foundered in a. gale on .Lake Erie. The crew ol fifteen were drowned. The m«mbeiship of the Mormon sect has more than doubled during the pa&t decade. An American syndicate has purchased four thousand square miles ol land in the vicinity of Xl i'aso, Texas, for a cattle rancn, and is spending iour million sterling on" the property. A 16in j^un, weighing a hundred and thirty tons, with a range ox tweiuy-one miles!, is being elected at Sandy Hook. It will cost ±526,000. [Sandy Hook is a narrow &andy peninsula, six miles long, about MXteen miles south of New I'ork.J Mr. Moseiy's. Commission to enqune into labour conditions in America was j specially amazed at the equipment of tha American cotton milts,, whicn were considered far superior to tliobe of Lancashire. LONDON, 28th November Miss Maggie Stirling, the Australian singer, sand at the iiichter-Halle codcerts in Manchester. Lord Reay has beer elected first President of the new British Academy. BERLIN, 28th November. The German ciuisers Anmone, Ariadne, and Niobe have been ordered to proceed to Venezuela within a week. ROME, 28th November. The Turkish battleship Me^sudien, which is being- converted into a modern warship at Genoa, is to ba sold to defray expenses, owing to Turkey failing to meet instalments due for work done. BOMBAY, 28th November. Lord Kitchener, the new Commander-in-Chief in India, lias arrived here. He was given a hearty reception. ADELAIDE, This Day. A man iwmed Sfeeadman fiwd at and miesed a constable- who was arresting him. He thon shot himseTi through the head. His condition is critical. FREMANTLE, This Day. The steamer Ville de 1« Ciotat has been quarantined owing .to a ciiso of smallpox having occurred during the voyage. The patient was landed at Co- , lombo. 4f