VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 10 August 1905, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[PEES 9 ASSOCIATION. 1 ) JAPANESE SQUADRON'S VISIT. (Received August 10, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 9th August. The Daily Telegraph states that- the Mikado will send a squadron to tha Solent as soon as circumstances in the' Fa* East permit. INFLAMMATORY ARTICLES. LONDON, 9th August. A man named Antonelli Barbieri, a newsagent, has been remained at the Bowstreet Police Court on a charge of publishing regicidal articles in the newspaper Insurrezione, published in Switzerland, and sold in London, inciting anarchists to imitate Bresci. FRENCH BANK'S DIFFICULTIES. PARIS, 9th August. The Printemps Savings Bank estimates its assets 'at upwards of five million francs above liabilities. _[A run was caused on the bank by thefailure of M. Jabuzot, a speculator, to pay losses incurred through holding three million bags of produce, and which caused the bankruptcy of two large produce brokers in Paris. The bank paid out £100,000, and then suspended payment.] GERMANY'S LITTLE WAR. BERLIN, 9th August. The newspaper Militarc Wochenblatt publishes Count Schweinitz's discovery of the skeletons of one hundred Hereros in , German South-west Africa. It states that a thousand cattle, fleeing after the battle of Waterburg in the autumn, scooped holes fifty feet deep in the vain search for water ( !). REGULATING MOTOR-CARS. LONDON, 9th August. Viscount Selby has been appointed chairman of a Royal Commission which is to enquire into Acts and regulations affecting motor-cars. THE CRETAN INSURRECTION. ATHENS, 9th August. A Russian gunboat, after meeting with armed opposition on the part of the insurgents, warned families to leave, and then bombarded the village of Kastelli, ir the Mylopotama district, Crete, and occupied the Customhouse on behalf of the Cretan Government. HAGUE TRIBUNAL AWARD. LONDON, 9th August! The award of The Hague Tribunal, in respect to the Anglo-French difference, declares that France was not entitled since 1891 to authorise Muscat subjects to fly the French flag unless they wero French proteges before 1863. The award states that dhows under French , protection enjoy, within territorial waters of Muscat, the right of inviolability conferred under the treaty of 1844. This right is not transferable. STEAMER LAUNCHED. LONDON, 9th August. The P. and O. Company's steamer Mooltan has been launched at Qreenock. INCENDIARIES AT WARSAW. ST. PETERSBURG, 9th August. , Railway porters on strike at Warsaw set fire to the warehouses. Tho outbreak wae extinguished before much damage was done. "DEEPEST FIND IN THE WORLD." MELBOURNE, This Day. Gold-bearing stone has been taken from a 4200 ft level in the New Chum mine, in Bendigo — the deepest find in the world, A LAND BANK. SYDNEY, 9th August. The Farmers' Conference carried a resolution in favour of a Land Bank. Tho speakers instanced the success of the system in New Zealand, and stated that since the establishment of the bank taxable incomes had increased 116 per cent. It had also proved that by providing it cheaply heaps of money could be saved.