VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1907, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received February 5, 8.30 a.m.) REBUILDING KINGSTON. KINGSTON, 4th February. A committee of merchants and others in Jamaica is considering a reconstruction scheme, under which it is proposed to ask for an Imperial loan of £1,000,000. AN EIGHT HOURS' DAY. JOHANNESBURG, 4th February. The announcement is made that an eight hours' day has been conceded to underground workers on the Rand. SKATING FATALITIES. LONDON, 4th February. Numerous skating fatalities have occurred in England. ' A GENEROUS BEQUEST. LONDON, 4th February. Ml*. Charles Cafr Ashley, late of Kings ton-on-the-ThameS, has bequeathed £70,000 to the Royal Lifeboat Institution. MARRIAGE. LONDON, 4th February. The Earl of Portarlington has married Miss Winifred Yuill, daughter of Mr. G. S. Yuill. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. LONDON, 4th February. Arctovski's Antarctic expedition intends starting this year. Tho expedition will uso motor sledges in its' work. f t OBITUARY. ?, LONDON,' 4th February. ■*' Marchioness Florence Cecilia Hastings, who eloped while she was bcthrothed to Mr. Chaplin, is dead. A NEW RIFLE^ VIENNA, 4th February. M. Lauber, an Austrian, has invented a rifle two and a quarter pounds lighter than Mannlichor's, and which, it is claimed, fires fifteen shots a minute. AMERICA'S DEFENCES. • NEW YORK, 4th February. , General Funston, who is in command j of tho forces in California, declares that an energetic army would bo able to transport a division of infantry and be easily able^ to capture San -Francisco. Ho urges the -strengthening of the coast defences. A NEW DEPARTURE. LONDON, 4th February. The Admiralty has issued' orders that all seagoing warships are to be fitted with wireless telegraphing apparatus and shall transmit regular reports of thtt weather as long as they are able to communicate with the shore. This order is made with a view to aiding the work of tho Meteorological Office. GOVERNOR AND ADMIRAL. ■ LONDON, 4th February. The Kingston correspondent of The Times, in a Utter dated 19th January, says tho landing of American marines was an error due to misconception of his duties by one of Sir J. A. Swcttenham's subordinates, His Excellency, tin learning what had occurred, thanked Admiral Davit for hia prompt and friendly action, but requested him to withdraw his fdreo, foi- whose services there was no uso whatevei. CAPTURE OF A GAOLBREAKER.. LONDON, 4th February. The Perth police captured & man named Gibbons, a goalbre&ker, just as he was in the act of attempting to dynamite a merchant's safe adjoining a railwaybridge. The police extinguished the fuse, which was connected with txplosivcs sufficient t6 wreck the bridge. ADMIRALTY CHANGES. LONDON, 4th February. Sir Evan Macgwgor, Permanent Secretary to tlie Admiralty, is retiring. He will be succeeded by Mr. Charles Inigo Thomas, Assistant-Secretary. DOCKERS COMPENSATED. LONDON, 4th February. Damages and costs have been awarded the native dockers who were recently flogged in Lagos, a British colony on the coast of the Bight at Benin, 160 miits east of the Gold Coast. [Ihe incident mentioned in the above nieseftga happened early in December. The natives alleged that a British port official inflicted twenty. five lashes each on twolve native dockers for asking for wages which were due, and for declaring that they were «t&rving.'j ALLEGED EXACTION AND SEIZURE. BERLIN, 4th February. In reference to the alleged seizure of timber by Fehim Pasha, a Turkish officer, it is etatod that the owner of the forest whence the timber was seized took refugo in the German Embassy. He declares that ho was detained in Fohim's house for a fortnight, and was beaten frequently until he signed nn agreement to pay Fehim '2o per cent, of the profits of his business. The Saltun, in response to tho demand of tho German Embassy, has appointed a commission to enquire into tho alleged exaction and seizuie.