VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[PKESS ASSOCIATION.] IRISH REFORM ASSOCIATION. (Received October 4, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, 3rd October. Mr. John Dillon (Nationalist member for Mayo), speaking at Sligo, said the plan of the Earl of Dunraven's Irish Reform Association is absolutely .unsatisfactory and unworkable. ! THE BATTLESHIP CONNECTICUT. NEW YORK, 3rd October. After the new battleship Connecticut was launched, one of her compartments became flooded. A hole was then discovered to have been bored through a keel plate. There is no clue to the perpetrator. [Before the Connecticut was launched last week divers discovered an obstruction intended to rend the bottom of the vessel. It was suspected that the outrage was due to labour troubles in connection with the building of the warship.] MR. BEIT'S GIFT. CAPETOWN, 2nd October. The Frankenwald Estate at Johannesburg, valued at £60,000, which Mr. Beit, the South African mining king, has presented to the Transvaal Government, is destined for an agricultural college. THEFT OF JEWELLERY. „ MELBOURNE, 3rd October. Rowland's jewellery shop in Collinsstreet was entered by burglars, and £900 worth of jewellery stolen.

Last night a young roan named Walter James was arrested on a train on a charge of having stolen £1 12s from the dwelling of Daniel Heron, at Levin,< yesterday. This morning he was brought before Dr. A. M' Arthur, S.M., and remanded to appear at Levin next Tuesday to answer the charge. William Fraser was fined 10b, or 48 houis' imprisonment, for drunkenness, and 20s, or seven days' imprisonment, for having resisted Constable D. Cameron whilst in the execution of his duty. Walter Jackson was remanded on Mr. Wilford's application till Friday to answer, a charge of having obstructed Constable Curtis whilst in the execution of his duly. Esther Collier was fined £3, i in detault one month's imprisonment, for having used obscene language in Moles-worth-street la&t evening, and was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. Martha Johnston was remanded to appear at Moawhanga next Tuesday to answer two charges of having received stolen goods. Fo* #nsobnety John M'Laughlin was fined 10s, in default 48 houis' imprisonment; and Geo. Wm. Jack.son was convicted and discharged. One first-offender was also dealt with..