VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 91, 18 April 1906, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

IPBES9 ASSOCIATION.] (Received April 18, 9.45 a.m.) early closing. LONDON, 17th April. A conference of the Shop Assistants' | Union meeting in London has adopted a draft Bill inaking early closing compulsory. END OF A STRIKE. PARIS, 17th April. The strike of postmen in Paris has collapsed. GERMAN COALING STATION. SINGAPORE, 17th April. It is stated at Singapore that a German firm has acquired a commercial coaling station at Pulalant Island, southeast of Dutch Borneo. INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY. LONDON, 17th' April. The annual conference of the Independent Labour Party is being held at Stockton. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M.1., hus been elected piesident. THE NATAL RISING. PIETERMARITZBURG, 17th April. Tho (Natal Government has thanked the loyal natives for their vuisistance in the pursuit of Bambaata, and has promised to recompense them for the destruction of^their hut 3 and cattle. INQUISITIVE GERMANS. I ALGIERS, 17th April. Three German explorers, with , fifty Moorish hoi semen escorting "them, have made an extensive tour of the coast on the western side of th« Algerian frontier. ROYAL FAMILY AT ATHENS. ATHENS, 17th April. King Edw.u-d, Queen Alexandra, and the Prince and Princess of Wales have arrived here. The King and Queen congratulated Professor Boranquet, head of the British School of Archaeology, on his discovery of Hie Temple of Artemis on the banks of the. river Eurctas. PORTUGUE.SE MUTINY SUPPRESSED. LISBON, 17th' April. The mutiny on the ironclad Vasco da Gama, was quelled without difficulty. Ifc waa chiefly prompted by sympathy with tho mutineers on the cruiser Dom J Carlos I. ! PEN-NY POSTAGE. LONDON, 17th April. The Times publishes a letter two and n. half columns in length which Mr. Henniker Heaton has addressed to Mr. Sydney Buxton, Postmaster-General, arguing in favour of penny postage.