VARIOUS GABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS GABLED ITEMS.

[FRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received Novtmber 2, 9.2 a.m.) THE LIPPE-DETMOLD SUCCESSION. LONDON, Ist November. Several Berlin papers state that the Fe~deral Council will award the Regency of Lippe-Detmold to Count Leopold, the eldest son of the late Regent, Count Ernest. [J.ne Kaiser, according to a previous cablo message, declined to recognise the assumption of the Regency of Count Leopold, who was supported by the State Government.] POSTAL FACILITIES. LONDON, Ist * November. The Postmaster-General (Lord Stanley) has intimated his intention of abandoning the proposed tash-on-delivery system in connection with the parcels post in the Motherland, but will try to establish a system of helping the exchange of commodities between the Motherland and the colonies, in order to prevent the loss of spme of our trade through greater facilities of postage between the colonies and foreign countries. BRITAIN AND AMERICA. LONDON, Ist November. Britain and America are negotiating an arbitration treaty. lJij£ DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. LONDON, l*t November. The Duke of Devonshire (who was Lord President of the Council prior to the reconstruction of the British Cabinet after Mr. Chamberlain unfolded his preferential ,«cheme) has been appointed President of the Unionist Freetrade Club. A SUGGESTION TO CANADA. /_ . OTTAWA,, Ist November. Mr. John Morley, who is visiting Canada, speaking at Toronto, urged Canada to avoid military entanglements with the Old World. Any apparent trade benefits in the meantime would be poor compensation for such evil. A A'liiW SOUTH WALES TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, Ist November. A man named Lowe shot a woman named Penson dead at Guyra, in the Arirtidale district, and then committed suicide. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of the crime.