VARIOUS GABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS GABLED ITEMS.

THE FLOODS IN AMERICA. U'ItKSS ASSOCIATION. I (Received Jmiuair 27, 8.35 n.m.) NEW YORK, 26th January. The rivers in the PitUburg district arc subsiding. DEATHS FROM PNEUMONIA. NEW YORK, 26th January. Upwards of tlucc hundred deaths are occurring weekly iv New York from pneumonia. THE COTTON MARKET. NEW YORK, 26th January. Continental buvoit* of cotton are operating largely in Liverpool, and have iiu'scd the spot prloe to 8d — the highest for thirty yearn. At New York tlio juices liovo advanced fqjty points. A GOVERNOR SHOT AT. (Received January 27, 9.13 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 26th Jan. Three shots wcro fired at Baron Korff, Governor of Lomza, Russian Poland. One of tlio shots traversed the Governor's cup. The- assailants escaped. LLOYD'S REGISTER. LONDON, 26th January. Lloyd's Register shows that 632 iner* cantilo ettameis aggregating 1,165,503 tons, und 65 sailing vessels, 25,115 tons, were launched in tuo United Kingdom lust yeur — thu lowest output binco 1897 ; whllii 549 sUamcm, aggregating 798,205 tons, und 404 sailing vessels, 156,908 tons, woro built, abroad, chiefly in the United States and Germany. H.M.S. HIBEHNIA. (Roceivcd January 27, 10.7 a.m.) f LONDON, 26th Jununry, The new battleship Hibornia- will bo fitted with storage for oil fuel. KING EDWARD. LONDON, 26th January. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the King will proced to St. Petersburg early in July. Thoro is much speculation as to the object of his visit. COLONEL LYNCH. LONDON, 26th January. King Edward seemed tlio release of Colonel Aft bur Lynch, ox-M.P. for Gnlway, who vitts serving a life Bontence for high treason, UNION HANK OP AUSTRALIA. LONDON, 26th January. The Union Bank of Australia's report shows the deposits amounted to £15,526,000; cash investment and- balance of remittances, £7,232,000 j bills and securities, £12,497,000.