VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

« [press association. } THE SHANTUNG ARSENAL. (Received November 29, 9.43 a.m.) PEKIN, 28lh November. China is purchasing machinery for making Mauser cartridges at the Shanr tung arsenal. ■ CANADIAN BALLOT CONSPIRACY. OTTAWA, 28th November. The Canadian ballot conspiracy was being prepared for two years. [It was announced the other day that details regarding the use of false ballot boxes at the elections showed that the papers of known Conseixratives were switched into a secret compartment uncounted.] SIR HARRY MACLEAN. TANGIER, 28th November. Sir Harry Mac Lean, Inspector-in-Chief of the Army in Morocco, whom tribesmen made a desperate attempt to capture, has arrived here. LONDON WATER • BOARD. LONDON, 28th November. The Court of Arbitration has awarded the New Eiver Company "£6,534,000 for property transferred to the Metropolitan Water Board. 'The company's claim was for £13,260,164, but certain decisions of the Court during the hearing reduced this by several millions. AMERICA AND FRANCE. WASHINGTON, 28th November. President Roosevelt, in toasting the health of M. Loubet, President of France, at the French Pavilion at the World's Fair at St. Louis, said the many bonds of friendship which had always united France and the United States had become still closer. BRITAIN AND AFGHANISTAN. (Received November 29, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 28th November. The British Mission .o Cabul has left Peshawar. The Russian press fears that Britain will achieve great results owing to the Russian defeats in Manchuria, and the checks in Tibet and' EjouchEastern. Persia. [Last month the India Office issued the following statement : — "Since the accession of, the present Amir of Afghanistan in 1901, there has hitherto been no opportunity for a meeting for the discussion of general topics between His Highness and 'a representative of, the Government of India. The Amir has now proposed to send his eldest son, the Sardar Inayat-ulla, to meet Lord Curzon on his return to India, and will receive at Cabijl an official of the Government of India authorised to discuss with His Highness questions concerning his relations with the British Go\ernment. The officer deputed for the purpose' wilF proceed to Cabul at the end of November."] THE BARQUE TRAFALGAR. (Received November 29, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Thia Day. A cable message received by the underwriters states that the barque Trafalgar is breaking up. [The Trafalgar went ashore 20 miles South of TamanVlra (Brazil). The ship was despatched from Sydney on the 15th September. Her cargo consisted of 22,541 ,bags of wheat, which was insured at Lloyd's for £15,000. The vessel was also covered in London. The Trafalgar was a fine four ; masted iron barque, belonging to Messrs. A. Weir and Company, of Glasgow. She was built on the Clyde in 1877, and her dimensions were : Length, 271 ft sin ; beam, 39ft- 3in ; and depth, 32ft 4in. The barque was classed 100 Al at Lloyd's. Captain P. Paterson is in command. The Trafalgar had a rather sensational voyage to Melbourne from Java several years ago. On that occasion, the captain and all the officers died of fever, and the work of' navigating the vessel into port devolved on a young apprentice. He made quite a name for himself by tho plucky action, and was quickly promoted, and, later on, given the command of a large tramp steamer trading to . Australia.] THE NEW HEBRIDES. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Federal Premier states that he has received a cable message stating that the Colonial Office had made further representations to the French Government with regard to the early appointment of a Land Commissioner in New Hebrides-