VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

NINETEEN SAILORS DROWNED. (TRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received December 9, 10.14 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Bth Deceiver. A boat capsized and drowned nineteen sailors belonging to a Turkish corvette at Mansura (Tripoli). CANAL-BUILDING. NEW YORK, Bth December. Mr. W. H. Taft, American Minister of War, speaking vi Panama, announced that the United States hoped to build a- sealevel canal. GOLD IN RHODESIA. LONDON, Bth December. The South African Chartered Company announces the discovery in the Victoria district, Rhodesia, of auriferous deposits similar to those at Johannesburg. ARBITRATION MISSION. LONDON, Bth December. Mr. Thomas Barclay, formerly President of the British Chamber of Commerce, nnd who has for the last few years identified himself with an active agitation for a good understanding with France, is revisiting Germany in an endeavour to associate the Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, and business classes in his pacific mission in the direction of international arbitration treaties. BAPTISM OF THE ITALIAN PRINCE. LONDON, Bth December. Prince Arthur of Conna-ught represented King Edward at the Prince of Piedmont's baptism. Prince ArtLur visited the Pope. AFFAIRS IN PERSIA. LONDON, Bth December. The Russian Minister at Teheran has been ordered to send a Commission to South-eastern Persia to watch the Indian Commercial Mission. EX-BOOKMAKER ASSAULTED. LONDON, Bth December. R. Sievers, ex-Australian bookmaker, was severely assaulted in the street, and ns the result of the injuries received ho is confined to his room. THE NEW HEBRIDES. LONDON, Bth December. The Times publishes an article from its Australian correspondent relating to the New Hebrides, in which the Federal Government is advi&ed to concede preference to Australian settlers there. ANGLO-FRENCH CONVENTION. PARIS, Bth December. The Senate, by 215 votes to 15, ratified the Anglo-French Convention. The convention between France and Siam has also been ratified by the Senate. GUN-MAKERS' PROFITS. BERLIN, Bth December. The gross profits of tie Krupp firm of gun and ammunition makers for the year amount to a million sterling. t NEW ZEALAND APPeA CASE. LONDON. Bth' December. The Privy Council has reserved its judgment in the Wellington case, Riddifdrd v. the King. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. LONDON, Bth December. The imports for November, increased £1,947,000, and the exports increased £3,075,000, compared with the previous November. The expansion is chiefly in manufactured goods, and cotton chiefly accounts for the increased exports. THE NEW YORK SENSATION. NEW YORK, Bth December. Mrs. Chadwiok, who was alleged to have borrowed large sums of money from New York financiers on- a specious story regarding certain securities, was arrested at Cleveland on a charge of aiding a bank official to embezzle.