VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 27, 1 February 1907, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

(FBISS AfISOCUTIOW.I (Received February 1, 8.30 a.m.) A FATAL UIbEASE. LONDON, 31st January. Seven cases of spinal meningitis hay* been reported at'Leith. Twenty-two fatal cases occurred in Scotland jn a week. LORD HAMPDEN'S ESTATE. LONDON, 31et January. Lord Hampdcn's estate ia valued at £160,000, ABOLITION OF DEPOTS. LONDON, 31st January. The Army Council announces the abolition of five artillery depots on tbe Ist March, in accordance with the scheme pf reduction, A RAPID RISE AND FALL. LONDQN, 31st January. The Tyne River rose four feet in a few seconds, and receded as quickly. A GOOD CUSTOMER. LONDON, 31st January. England purchased two million pounds worth of French motor cars in 1906. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. BRUSSELS, 31et January. Funds ore being rawed to despatch an Antarctic expedition under M. Lecoile director of the Brussels Observatory. THE REDEN DISASTER. BERLIN, 31st January. Prince Frederick Leopold, of Prussia, visited the bereaved ' families at Reden, and distributed £1000 from the Kaiser's privy purse. FORTIFICATIONS AT HONOLULU. NEW YORK, 31st January. Mr. Taft, Minister of War, urges the appropriation by Congress of an additional three and a half million dollars for the purpose of fortifying Pearl Harbonr, Honolulu. The Minister declare* that every reason exists for having fortifications ready. ALLEGED CONTEMPT OF COURT. LONDON, 31st January. Three judges out of four on the King's Bench Divieion at Dublin dedhmd to o.ttach Walter Long for contempt in con* nection with certain commonta, which were made on a pending trial at the Leitrim, Aesizes. The ground for tho finding waa that the Attorney-General had not prompted tho proceedings, and moceover that the .comments were not calculated to prejudice the course of justice. Mr, Justico Palles dissented from the majority, holding that Long ought to be heavily fined. A SUBMARINE INVENTION. ADELAIDE, Tiis Day. Captain Dale claims to fca-ve invented a submarine capable of firing thirty torpedoes without affecting their buoyancy. AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON, FREMANTLE, Thia Day. The fleet has returned from the Singapore Conference, TJiB MARITIME CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, 31st January. Mr. J. C. Watson hoc decided, for private reasons, not to- accopt appointment as ono of the Australian delegates, to the-Moritime Conference in London.