VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 147, 19 December 1905, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

" [press association.! (Received December 19, 8.56 a.m.) . LEADERS IN THE; PACIFIC. NEW YORK, 18th December* iMr. Shand, Secretary of the United States Treasury, addressing the Yale students, said that when the Panama Canal was completed, and the mercantile marine developed, the United States would become the actual leaden in the Pacific. MILITARY APPOINTMENT. LONDON, 18th December. _ Major-General Herbert, Plumer has resigned his position as QuartermasterGeneral to the Forces and third member of the Army Council. Lieutenant-Gon-eral Sir William Nicholson succeeds him. ['Major-General Plumer only hold office a little over a year. His successor, who is sixty years of age, served in the Afghan War, the Egyptian war, and with several expeditions. He acted as Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief during the South African campaign, and foe three years was Directori General of Mobilisation and Military Intelligence at the War Office.] CHINA AND JAPAN. TOKIO, 18th December. China is exhibiting great reluctance to the granting of further concessions to Japan: AFFAIRS IN SOUTH AFRICA. CAPETOWN, 18th December. The leaders of the Dutch United Church express satisfaction at Lord Selborne's education scheme, and repudiate Het Yolk's objections. ITALIAN POLITICS. ROME, 18th December. Signor Fortis has resigned the Premiership owing to the reaction caused by the proposed commercial yiveridi with Spain fixing duties on Spanish wines. [Signor Fortis was appointed Premier in succession- to Signor Giolitti, who retired in March last, owing to ft--health.] \ TROUBLE IN CHINA. LONDON, 18th December. The dispute over the -Mixed Court led to an outbreak at Shanghai. The American Vice-Consul was injured, the_ German Consul stoned, and other foreigners injured. Marines were landed and volunteers summoned, and the Chinese shops were closed. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. MELBOURNE, This Day. A boiler in a sawmill at the Tallarook Mountain burst, killing two brothers named Garner and injuring four others. A.M.P. BUSINESS. MELBOURNE, This Day. So far as opinion has found expression, it soems to be against the extension of the A.M.P. business to England. Policyholders in the railway service have empTiatically declared against it. COPYRIGHT BILL. MELBOURNE, 18th December. The clause in the Copyright Bill imposing conditions under which newspapers might avail themselves of protection was omitted in Committee on the voices.