VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 148, 23 June 1906, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[PRZBS ASSOCIATION] (Received June 23, 8.30 a.m.) TWO MONTHS. LONDON, 22nd June. Mrs, Billington, who has taken a very active part in the woman suffragist movement, refused to pay a fine of £10 for assaulting the police, and has been sent to Holloway Gaol for two months. GREENWICH OBSERVATORY. LONDON, 22nd June. The Government is appointing a committee representing the Admiralty and the London County Council to enquire if the council's electric station is injuriously affecting the Greenwich Observatory. THE ADMIRALTY PROGRAMME. LONDON, 22nd June. A deputation representing one hundred and twenty Liberal- membera of the House of Commons urged the Government to reduce the Admiralty/programme for naval ronstruction. The Prime Minister (Sir Henry Campbell-iJanijerman) promised to .give the matter sympathetic consideration. ATTACK ON A BRITISH OFFICER. LONDON, 22nd June. A tribe attacked and seriously wound- [ ed Major Sharpe, the British resident at I Kantpgora, in South-west Kani>, CATHEDRAL DESTROYED. OTTAWA, 22nd June. The Catholic cathedral at Nicolet, in Canada, wjth St. Joseph's Retreat and convent buildings, have boen destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £18,000. A COINING DEN. MADRID, 22nd June. A coining den has been discovered at Barcelona. The annual output from the place is estimated at £26,000 face value. Nine arrests have been made. AMERICAN TINNED MEATS. NEW YORK, 22nd June. A hundred and eighty million dollars' (£36,000,000) worth of United States meats and meat products were exported during the last eleven montha — nearly all to Great Britain. REFORMS IN FRANCE. PARIS, 22nd June. The Chamber of Deputies, by 410 votes to 87, approved a declaration by the Premier, M. Sarrien, of the Government's intention to mako financial, economic, and social reforms, paving the way to a union of capital and labour, and the development of education. TRANSVAAL ELECTION. . LONDON, 22nd June. Speaking at a dinner at the New Reform Club Mr. Winston Churchill said he hoped the Transvaal elections would be hold this year, and that the new Parliament would meet early in 1907. PANAMA CANAL. NEW YORK, 22nd June. The American Senate, by 36 votes to 31, approved the principle of a lock type for the canal across tho T sthmus of Panama. PENNY POBTAGE. . LONDON, 22nd June. During a discussion on the postal vote in tho House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Henniker Heaton disputed Mr, Buxtons estimate that the cost to the department of the adoption of universal penny postage would amount to half a million a year. Mr. Heaton said he believed the cost would not exceed £125,000. CONTROLLING WAR NEWS. LONDON, 22nd June. A representative conference of managers and editors of London and provinoial newspapers affirmed the acceptance by the press of the general principle of controlling, or, if necessary, restnoting, the dissemination of war news in time of war with a Great Power, or when war is imminent. FINANCE BILL. LONDON, 22nd June. The Finance Bill passed its final stages in the House of Lords yesterday. Viscount Goschen (ex-Chancellor of tho Exchequer) condemned ths impolicy and injustiwi of not reducing tho income tax. RITUALISTIC PRACTICES. LONDON, 22nd June. The commission appointed to enquire into tho ritualistic practices har presented a unanimous report.