VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 37, 12 August 1905, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[I'BESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 12, 8.30 a.m.) A GERMAN -'SET-OFF." / PEKIN, lltb August. The German ciuiser Hnnsa steamed several hundred miles up the Yang-tse-Kiang River. This is believed to bo a set-off to tho recent visit of the British battleship Glory, and to emphasise Germany's refusal to recognise Britain's sphere of influence in the Yang-tse-Ki&ng Valley. THE PRINTEMPS BANK. PARIS, 11th August. Five hundred employees in the Printemps Saving Bank have decided to proceed against M. Jaluzot, whose speculations were alleged to be the primary cause of the run on the bank. SAGHALIEN FISHERIES. LONDON, 11th August. The Japanese Government is inviting competitive tenders for the Saghalien fisheries until the end of 1906. ATTACK ON FRENCH MISSIONARIES. PEKIN, 11th August. Lama, priests in Honan (Northern China) have killed and wounded many French missionaries. THE INDIAN PARTITION TROUBLE. BOMBAY, 11th August. The natives of Bengal chiefly object to the proposed partition because of the subdivision of the Bengal-speaking race, thus severing ties which had existed for centuries. / PRISONERS RELEASED. BERLIN, 11th August. The German Government has released the Senegalese Guards taken prisoners during the recent incident on the Cameroons frontier. THE KAISER'S APPEAL. BERLIN, 11th August. s Emperor William, in an address in connection with the army manoeuvres at Gresen, appealed to Poles to exhibit loyalty and appreciation of good government. His Majesty added that at his lost interview with Leo. XIII., his Holiness clasped both his hands and blessed him, though a Protestant, promising that all German Catholics would be faithful subjects of their Emperor. REFORMS IN MACEDONIA. LONDON, 11th August. Lord Lansdowne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affaire, has announced that the Powers fully intend to secure the Porto's compliance with the terms of the Note regarding reform in Macedonia. ALLEGED MISAPPROPRIATION. SYDNEY, 11th August. On the arrival of the Moana from Auckland to-day the polico arrested William Henry Co •••in, on a charge of misappropriating £65, the property of the New Zealand Government, while in the employ of the Telegraph Line Construction Department at Auckland.