VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[I'BKS.*! ASSOCIATION.! (Received January 29, 8.42 n m ) MR. HERBERT Si'BNCKR'S KSTATE ACTIVITY AT WOOLWICH. LONDON, 28rh January. Remarkable activity prevail* at tho Woolwich An.enal. POTTKRV WORKS IN" AUSTRALIA .I-OXDOX, ZBth January, of L i°T l V i ™ n « uJ '"-'t««r, and ono at tho Stallordshuo potleiies delegates, ih tijtiiij* 1,, Australia fhe riecessurv machinery (o «tnrt works there. ATTBMPTKD ASSASSINATION ST. PETERSBUIia, 28th Jnn An unsuccessful attempt was made to ansaanuot* M. Weinenbauin, PnwMont of oZ ) " im '« mo ' 1 appointed by R, ls «i tt - to carry out tho dvere* confiscating tho Aroieiuun Church property at Tillis KATAL'S AOJGNT-GENERAL. <*• ay v L 2 NDO^. 2 8th January. Sir V, . Alter Peace has resigned tho nScnith ftl ° f Nalul on Hcco " nfc "' [Sir Walter Peace was appointed Agent-General for Natal in 1893. Prior to that ln> was employed in business in* iSatal ns a _ merchant 'and shipper, and took an active inteiest in thu publio affairs of tho colony.] ANARCHISTS IN MADRID. . MADRID, 28th January During a uowded reception by lvin X A fon«, .., Madrid, two supposed anarchists left v tin of explosive smouldoriiiK with a fuso attached, under <i bench at tho entrance to the Pulaco, SUICIDK OF A FINANCIER. , r „ LONDON, 28th January. ! Mr. I'ieeman Cohen, a Rand financier nnd ono of the guarantors of the TrnnsVttiil war loiin. has committed suicide KING EDWARD'S VISIT TO IRELAND, m, v - LONDON, 28lh January. « I^'a 8 ?, nd uoe " P r °ceed to Ireland on 23rd April, and will remain there ten days. SEALING REGULATIONS WASHINGTON, istftli January. The American Senate has authorised Colonel Hay, Secretary of Stole, to negotiato with Great Britain for a revision of the joint sealing regulations in Alaskan waters. THE TURIN FIRE. ROME, 28th January. One hundred thousand books wore' destroyed in tho Turin library flro. Only one thousand volumes were out> Four thousand choice fifteenth century manuscripts wero rescued. MADAME MELBA. PARIS, 28th January. Madame Molba, has been soriously ill with bronchitis at Monte Carlo. She is now slightly better. MR. SEDDON CRITICISED. LONDON, 28th January. .St. Jiuncß's Gazette says Mr. Setldon lins an admirable faculty of thinking Imperially, but perhapn rather to excess on somo obvioiiH occasions when to think locally would be a virtue. COTTON-GROWING. (Received January 29, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, 28th January. A company with a enpitrtt of a quarter of (v million has been floated in order to cultivato cotton-growing in British Africa and the Wust Indies. THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY. LONDON, 28th ( January. The head of tho Canadian Intelligence Department reports Unit Pent so Island, belonging to Canada, completely dominates Uie inlands in Portland Channel, awarded io the United States by the Alaskan Boundary Commission.