VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[mums association.] (Received August 25, 9.25 a.m.) CANADA'S TRADE WITH BRITAIN. OTTAWA, 24th August. Canada's trndo with Great Britain during tho last fiscal yoar declined 5J per cent., while the Dominion's trade with the United States increased by nearly 12 per cent. MRS. MAYBRICK. NEW YORK, 24th August. .Mrs. Maybrick, who wus recently released from prison, hna arrived here. ARBITRATION TREATIES. LONDON, 24th August. The Daily Express states that it is King Edward's hope to conclude arbitration treaties with all tho civilised countries, and tliat ho will initiate negotiations for a treaty with, Russia after tho war. A LIBERAL GIFT. LONDON, 24th August. Canon Freer has devised £30,000 to the Bishopric of Birmingham. SCOTTISH CHURCH DISPUTE. LONDON, 24th August. Many meetings of tho Uiiited Free Church condemn tho House of Lords' decision and pledge themselves to continue tho union of 1900. GERMAN OFFICER SENTENCED. LONDON, 24th August. Baron, yon Horn, a captain in tho cavalry at Munich, lias been sentenced to six years' servitude and forfeiture of his civil rights for forging a brother officer's name, and desertion and immorality. DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT. LONDON, 24th August. Sir Francis Bertie, Ambassador nt Rome, has been appointed Ambassador to tho French Republic in place of Sir Edmund Monson, who i» retiring. [Sir Francis Bertie, who is 60 yeaxs of ago, was attached to the special Embassy to Berlin in 1878, and Sccrotary to the Duke of Fife's mission to invest tho King of Saxony with th© Order of the Garter in 1881. Ho has also held the position of Assist-ant-Undor-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.] SEIZURE OF PROPERTY. CARACAS, 24th August. President Cnslro peremptorily refuses to yield the property of tho New York-Ber-mudez Asphalt Company. [The Court of Caracas, Venezuela, recently ordered tho appointment of a Receiver and the seizuro ot tho property of tho New York-Bermu-dez .Asphalt Company. The company w incorporated in tko United States, but £1,000,000 worth of its bonds is held in Gieat Britain. The British and American authorities protected against tlio decision of tho Court.] SHIPPING STRIKE. PARIS, 24th August. A great shipping strike has commenced at Marseilles. Work has been suspended at the docks, piore, and coal depots. (Received August 26, 10.3* a.m.) THE BARQUE INVIiRURIE. SYDNEY, This Day. A cable message received from London by the underwriters atatea that a genera*, average has been declared on tho cargo of tho Invcrurie (damaged by fire while on the voyage from Wellington to London), THE DUMFRIESSHIRE. SYDNEY, This Day. A cable message from Noumea states that tho barque Dumfriesshire- (stranded on tho main reef flanking tho Gazelle Pass) is now on her way to Sydney to bo repuiro'l. AMERICAN WOOLLEN INDUSTRY. OTTAWA, 24th August. Tho woollen mills in Montreal have been placed on half time, British goods imported on the ove of a , tariff change being sufficient- for two years;.