VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 147, 22 June 1906, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

LZBXSS ASSOCIATION.! THE BANK RATE. (Received June 22, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 21st June. The bank rate has been fixed at 3£ per cent. DIVIDEND DECLARED. LONDON, 21st June. The National Mortgage Company of New Zealand has declared an interim dividend of 7j per cent. ANARCHIST ARRESTED. ROME, 21st June. Scaramelli, a notorious anarchist, has been arrested at Pisa. He was journeying to Ancona, where the King and Queen of 'Italy are to open a hospital on Sunday. WELSH CHURCH QUESTION." LONDON, 21st June. The Welsh Church Commission will enquire into the question of endowments, and also a provision which could be made to work in all denominations. HOURS OP LABOUR. LONDON, 21st June. The Admiralty is instituting a universal forty-eight hours' week for employees in the Royal dockyards. COLONIAL MARRIAGES BILL.' LONDON, 21st June. The Colonial Marriages Bill passed its final stages in the House of Lords yesterday. INTRIGUE IN KOREA. TOKIO, 21st June. Owing to xecent discoveries of grave intrigues with Russia, by the Korean Court, Japanese journals insist on the complete removal of corrupt officials who surround the Court. THE EQUITABLE LIFE. NEW YORK, 21st June. The Equitable Life Assurance Society has adopted an amended charter, providing for mutualisation. TRADE CONDITIONS. LONDON, 21st June. The Board of Trade is sending an officer to report upon the conditions of trade in Canada. THE NATAL RISING. PIETERMARITZBURG, 21st June. A Tongaland native baa been committed for trial at Pietermaritzburg on a charge of inciting native chiefs to join in a general rising. He made statements gravely impugning Dinizulu's loyalty. (Received June 22, 9.45 a.m.) WEST AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. PERTH, This Day. The Governor has opened Parliament His speech was pTactically an epitome of the Premier's recent policy speech. Both Houses adopted a resolution of, condolence wjth Mrs. Seddon and family in their late bereavement. UNDER SAIL. PERTH, This Day. The steamer Norfolk, bound from Cape, town to Albany, reached FremantOe under canvas. On Saturday week, when 950 miles out, she dropped her propeller, and did the rest of the journey under sail. EMBEZZLEMENT. MELBOURNE, This Day. Frederick Doe, hvte manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment* on a charge of embezzling £1220 of the bank's money. OBITUARY. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Rev. Dr. Alt?rander, Presbyterian Moderator, is dead.