VARIOUS GABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS GABLED ITEMS.

[I'ItKSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 26, 8.40 a.m.) GERMANY'S LITTLE WAR. BERLIN, 25th August. Tho German authorities tmticinato a two years' campaign against the Hcreros in South-west Africa. MORE ALPINE FATALITIES. LONDON, 25th August. Throo moro deaths havo occurred in tho Alps. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR NEW ZEALANDERS. LONDON, 26th August. Tho Commissioners of tho 1861 Exhibition have granted a Science Research Scholarship to Mr. Arthur Robert Andrew (New Zealand), and continued tho scholarship gnmtod to Mi*. Mat how Hunter (another New Zealandor) for a third y«ir. IMPERIAL POLITICS. NEW YORK, 25th August. Mr. Redmond (member of bue Houso of Commons), speaking at New York, said the coming elections were of the greatest importance to Ireland. The next Government would probably only havo a small majority in tho House of Commons, and tho Irish members would thus be able to turn tho scale. AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVES IN LONDON. LONDON, 25th August. Mr. Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria, has written to Mr. Bent (Premier), asking him to get tho Commonwealth Government to considor the acquisition of a sito in the Strand for Australia for a house for the High Commissioner and • State Agents-General. THE ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY. PARIS, 25th August. The newspaper Le Temps regrote Lord Rosebery's intemperate language regarding tho Anglo-French tieaty. Other newspapers also condemn tbe statements made. THE RUSSIAN PRHK3E. ST. PETERSBURG, 25fch Au»ust. The baptism of tho young Prince Alexis was a brilliant and pioturesque ceremony. The manifesto issued on the occasion was disappointing to those who hoped that the Tsar would bo inspired by a sentimont of largo generosity. The concessions granted aro regarded as moro palliatives for tho peasantry's sufferings. The prisons havo not been reformed. FINLAND. LONDON, 25th August. The Daily Telegraph says that a Ukase has been issued abolishing Finland as an independent military district and incorporating it with St. Petersburg. SIR FRANCIS BERTIE. PAJRJS, 25th August. The newspapers welcome the appointment of Sir Francis Bertie as Ambassador to the French Republic.