VARIOUS CABLES ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1906, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES ITEMS.

«a» . [PHESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received March 21, 8 29 a.m.) CHURCH DISTURBANCES IN ■ FRANCE. PARTS, 20th March. A courtmartial sentenced a mayor to one month's and two captains to a day's imprisonment in connection with tho recent church disturbances at Saint Servan. A MANSION DESTROYED. LONDON, 20th March. A mansion belonging to Mr. Robert Crawshaw, ironmaster, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £50,000. A BIG DEFICIT. LONDON, 20th March. The actuaries' report on the Superannuation Fund Association of tho Midland Railway Company shows a deficit of £853,000 in the last decade. DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA. LONDON, 20th March. Professor Gregory, of Melbourne, lectured at the Royal Geographical Society on the development of Australia. He defended a While Australia policy, which ho claimed was far-sighted, patriotic, and economically the best. He insisted' that the ideals of the Australian Labour Party were sadly misunderstood, and were viewed with unjust prejudice in England. The party, he declared, really used its political power with moderution. He considered a distrust of Australia and the misunderstanding of its ideals constituted the most serious danger between Australia and tho Empire.. ROYAL TOUR IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, 20th March. The Prince and Princess of Wales have sailed from India, on their return to England. AN INDUSTRIAL CENSUS. LONDON, 20th March. The Government has decided to ask Parliament for compulsory power to take a quinquennial industrial census. It is proposed to compile trustworthy statistics of home trade and of the freight earnings of the mercantile oversea marine. THE WEST INDIES. OTTAWA, 20th March. The Canadian Premier, Sur Wilfrid Laurier, states that he is willing to extend the present relations with the West Indies, but is not prepared at jiresent to encourage political union of the islands with Canada, GERMANY'S COLONIAL WAR. BERLIN, 20th March. The Reichstag has voted thirty million marks (about £1,500,000) to pay for the suppression of the Hez'eros rising in German West Africa. GERMANY AND CANADA. BERLIN, 20th March. Germany is urging Canada to remove the trade restrictions. DECISION UPHELD. LONDON, 20th March. The Judicial Committee of the House of Lords has upheld Mr. Justice- Bicknill's decision that deductions from workmen's wages for the purporso of recovering a legal award of damages are illegal. A FORGER RELEASED. LONDON, 20th March. William Barmash, who wfcs arrested on a charge of forging Bank of England notes, has been liberated in consideration of the confessions' he made. FAMILY QUARREL. SYDNEY, This Day. A serious lamily quarrel occurred at. Petersham. A man named Raven shot his wife and son-in-law. Neither of them is in a serious condition.

our auction columns will be found a special notice of tho coming auction sale to bo conducted by Messrs. East and East in their auction room, corner of Groy and Feathorslon streets, on Tuesday evening, 10th April, at 7.30. The firm will offer 50 sections at Miramar, tho property of tho East Burnham Estate Company, and known as tho football grounds. Tho block is well known as recently leased by tho Rugby Union. It adjoins tho golf links, and has over 900 foot of tram routo frontage, and is stated to bo thoroughly drained. All sections havo an area of a quarter of an aero. Tho tram schemo now under way, and which will lie completed Hißido of ton months, will bring tho properly within close touch of the city. The tcrma of purchaso nro 10 por cent, deposit, 10 per cent, in three nnd six months, balanco in three years at 4£ por cent. Finns aro being prepared, and full particulars can bo obtainod from tho auctioneers. \ Tho Commercial Agency, Limited, invitestondow for tho stock, etc., of Mossr*. Staub and Bradley, tailors, Willis-stroot. Caracul and beaver 1 cloths, etc., aro advortisod by Messrs. Warnook and Adkin over our "Wanted" column. Tho Garrison Bane} has vacancies for playonl! r hh ° rn> and sido drum t MOTOR OARS FOR CROSSING _, RIVERS, i! armors nnd runholders should inspect ■ tho now 14 h.p. Minorva car, whioh is specially made with plenty of clearances I for crossing rivers. THo U h.p. Minerva is built with four cylinders, which s ivos plenty of powor to onablo the car to bo driven over bad roadu and up stoop hills. Fourteen h.p. Minorva, i cylinder, winner of the Christclmrch Hill-climbing Championship Prico £525. ' Free trials to tho«o intoroatod. Adams Star Cycle Co., JVlwcpar.iteflQt^w.elUafllont^Advjt