VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 95, 19 October 1906, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[I'ltESB ASSOCIATIONS (Received October' 19, 8.45 a.m.) COUNT GOLUCHOWSKI. LONDON, 18th October. The Standard states that Count Goluchowski, Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foj-oign Affairs, has resigned. [Count Goluchowski is 57 years of ago. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on Count Kalnoky's resignation in 1895.] BANK MANAGER ARRESTED. OTTAWA, 18th October. Charles M'Gill, manager of the Ontario Bank (which was absorbed the other day by tho Bank of Montreal, owing to deficiencies totalling a quarter of a million sterling) has been arrested on a chargo of falsifying Government reports as to tho 1 state of the bank's finances. FRENCH DEFENCES. PARIS, 18th October. M. Clcmenceau, Minister of tho Interior, speaking ab Toulon, said Franco must be strong without Being aggressive, and capable of defending herself at any moment when attacked. Such a moment had nearly arrived recently against Franco's will. In "the course of a speech at Hyeres later, M. Clemenceau said: — "No peace is possible, without strength. When I assumed office I believed all nations wero at one in desiring peace. Immediately a storm of calumny broke over our heads, compelling us to ask, Are we prepared?" NEGROES RETALIATE. NEW YORK, 18th October. Negroes, attributing the dynamiting of tho negro college at Seneca to the work of whites, burnt the Seneca township to ashes. OBITUARY. NEW YORK, 18th October. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is dead. [The deceased lady was the wife of Mi*. • Davis, who was President of the Confederate States during the Civil War. Since her husband's death she has written numerous criticisms and articles for newspapers and magazines.] TROOPS IN YEMEN. CONSTANTINOPLE, 18th October. The Turkish troops in Yemen are enduring terrible privations. Many battalions havo been reduced to forty men. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. LONDON, 18th October. Mr. Bryco, Chief Secretary for Ireland, replying to a deputation in connection with tho partial failure of the potato crop in tho West of Ireland, said experience had convinced every one that in dealing with distress in Ireland, it was most dangerous to institute public works merely for the sako of relief. If they must institute such works their pormanent valuo to the neighbourhood must bo considered.