VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[X'RESS ASSOCIATION.] ATTEMPT TO DESTROY A BATTLESIIPP. NEW YORK, 28th September. Divers at Brooklyn discovered «vn obstruction intended to rend tho bottom of the new battleship Connecticut, which ia to bo launched to-day. Tho outrage is suspected to bo duo to labour troubles in connection with the construction of the vessel. THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT. NEW YORK, 28th September. General D. Porflrio Dins'. hna been elected for the oeventh tiino President of Mexico. INTERNATIONAL COURTESIES. BERLIN, 28th September. Tho Kniser nnd, tlvo Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary exchanged greetings on the occasion of t tho 25th nnniversory pi the Triple- Alliance. The Italian Prainicr nnd Count yon Bulo\r (Chancellor of the Empire) had & cordiul interview at Hamburg. GIRLS 1 STRIKE SETTLED. LONDON, 2sth September. Tho strike at tl»* Curzon Cotton Mills, A«liton-uiuU<r-Lyno, has ended, the operatives throwing over tho uuion and resuming work on iiic old terms.. [The strike aro.<*e over tlio refusal of tho girls in the factory to clean machinery after hours. Eighty girls were, engaged in Oldham to t*!ko the places of thew^ who struck. On© thousMid sym pnthisM* ot tho strikers threw bricks, stones, and popper at tho blacklegs, and hundreds of policemen had difficulty in protecting them from injury.] WHISKY DISTILLERIES DESTROYED. LONDON, 28Hi September. Tho promises of the Dailutnne-'falisker Distilleries, Limited, at Aberdeen, were destroyed by fire. Seven hundred thousnnd gallons of whiaky were destroyed. Tho dtimngo is MtJinatcd at £100,000. A BOXER PROGRAMME. PEKIN, 28th. September. Boxers in the north-west of tho Shantung province aro distributing circulars fixing 17th October for the extermination of foreigners. FURIOUS MOTORING. LONDON, 28th September. Mr. Phelps, a Magistrate at Massachusetts, fined Mr. Gurney, third secretary to tho British Embassy, £10 for furious motoring and contempt of Court. Colonel Hay, American Secretarr of State, ordered remission of tht fine. tDgethei with an apology. Mr. Pholps at first refused to comply with this demand, but ultimately he yielded. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. • (Received September 29, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. 28th September. The Bank of Australasia reports that during the year the deposits amounted to £15,106,000, cash «ecurltiea £6,673,000, tf biito.JBIWB^OOO,