VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 83, 5 October 1905, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.! COTTON MARKET EXCITED. (Received October 5, 8.11 a.m.) LONDON, 4th October. The cotton market at Liverpool is excited, prices falling fifteen points owing to the optimistic report of the United States Government Bureau. AN ATHLETE SUSPENDED. LONDON, 4th October, The Amateur Athletic Association has permanently suspended Alfred Shrubb, who recently visited the colonies, for malpractices. It is understood that the trouble is in connection with Shrubb's receiving expenses. [Recently Shrubb asked for permission to go to Canada and the United States, to compete in certain championships there, but was refused sanction by the English A.A.A. After hearing Shrubb's evidence as to the nature of the pro>posed trip, the committee decided that on the facts before them they were unable to grant the application. Probably Shrubb carried out his intention and made the trip.] THE GERMAN NAVY. , BERLIN, 4th October. The German Navy League, numbering 810,000 members, has issued a manifesto urging the Reichstag to provide funds for the rapid extension of the navy. AUSTRALIAN BUTTER EXHIBITION. LONDON, 4th October. An excellent show of Australian butter is made at, the dairy show in London, and is attracting much attention. The exhibits were awarded several prizes. RAILWAYS IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, 4th Ocf. Russia, proposes to construct a railway for a thousand miles connecting the Trans-Baikalia line with Aseuri. The next Budget will also provide a great scheme for railways throughout the Empire. THE CHINESE BOYCOTT. WASHINGTON, 4th October. Cabinet, after discussing the Chinese boycott, decided that some changes hi the existing regulations are necessary. , A LICENSE REVOKED. WASHINGTON, 4th October. The New York Life Assurance Company's license to do business in Nevada hai been revoked, pending an investigation of the charge? of fraudulent disposal of funds. A STEAMER STRANDED. HONGKONG, 4th October. The steamer Roddam, which mi^e such a sensational escapo during the Mont Pelee eruptions, is stranded on the ie« at Yenesoi. The vessel has been abandoned. UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLAND. LONDON, 4th October. King Edward declined to receive a deputation of Shoreditch unemployed, on the ground that such a course would be contrary to precedent. OUTRAGES BY CHINESE. CAPETOWN, 4th October. A gang of Chinamen attacked an isolated store kept by a Jew at Klip- ! fontein, near Johannesburg One white man was killed and three injured. THE BERLIN STRIKE. * BERLIN, 4th October. A thousand of the electrical companies' employees now Jocked out attempted to stop the running of trams in Berlin. The police dispersed the men with drawn swords. Nobody was injured. Numbers of provincial enginehands and stokers are working in Berlin under police protection. PRISONERS OF WAR. LONDON, 4th October. Russia is seeking to charter a steamer at Liverpool to convey 880 Japanese prisoners of war to Japan. It is believed this number represents all the prisoners captured who were conveyed to Europe. STATE MORTGAGE BANK. COPENHAGEN, 4th October. The Danish Government has submitted to the Riksdag a bill for the creai tion of a State Mortgage Bank, which will guarantee the credit of Fonder bonds. SENTENCED TO DEATH. BRISBANE, This Day. Ryan has been sentenced to death for the murder on tho 17th February of a selector namod Benton, whose charred bones woro found on a farm. WEST AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. PERTH, This Day. In the Assembly, the Premier moved the discharge from the Order Paper of the Bill introduced by tho previous Government for a referendum in regard to the abolition of the Upper House. The motion was negatived oy 18 votes to 16. The Premier secured an adjournment till to-morrow to consider' the position. It is understood that he intends to ask for a dissolution. PRESS SERVICE WITH CANADA. MELBOURNE, This Day. In tho Senate, Mr. Keating, in reply to a question, stated that tho Canadian Government suggested a press service across the Pacific with a limit of five hundred words from each end free of charge to all newspapers. The New Zealand Government was favourable, but the Commonwealth Government could hot (tgree, because, in accordance with the International Tolegraph Convention, of which Australia was a party, thero must be a terminal cbargo of twopgnce per word. THE BRISBANE FIRE. BRISBANE, 4th October. Miss Bangc, 0110 of the victims of the fire here, got, out safely in her nightdress, but returned to get her clothes, and porished. The buildings Were insured for £1500 in the National and New Zealand offices.

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