VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1907, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

fPMESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received February 6, 8.30 a.m.) . LARGE FIRE IN LONDON. LONDON, sth February. A fire in Wood-street, Choapside, destroyed several warohou'ses, containing Manchester goods, silks, and woollens. Tho damage is ostimated at £160,000. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. NEW YORK, sth February. As a result of an explosion in the ' Davis colliery, West Virginia, thirty pftople, mostly foreigners, wero killed. RIFLE TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA. LONDON, sth February. Tho National Rifle Association is appealing for subscriptions for £3000 to send a team to Australia. Sixty notable shots aro willing to go. The council contributes £250, Lord Chflylesmore £50, and the Prince of Wales has promised to subscribe. CLAIM FOR COMMISSION. LONDON, sth' February. John Wormington sued Colonfel Wallace, late Commandant of the- King's Colonials, for £250 commission, for procuring a donation of £5000 fi-om >Ir. Harlick, of the malted milt firm, for the regiment's funds. The plaintiff alleged that Wallace promised to put Mr. Harlick's name before tho Prince of Wales for a knighthood. The jury gave a verdict for defendant. ATTACK ON A FRENCH MISSION. • , MOROCCO, slh February." Tho Zoaega tribe ambushed a French hydrographies! mission in Morocco, on the river Seba. A friendly native horseman enabled the mission to escape to Rabat, though somo wero wounded. THE AMEER IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, sth February. Tho Ameer of Afghanistan is enjoying his trip to Calcutta immensely. Hia disregard of conventionalities and free manners astound everyone. A TERRORISING UNION. ST. PETERSBURG, stb February. Fifteen armed members of the Union of Russian People raided the offices of tho Peaceful Regeneration Party in Odessa and seized forty thousand lists of the party's electoral candidates. The union is terrorising tho city and committing innumerable outrages. BRITISH NAVAL STATIONS. LONDON, sth February. Tho Admiralty has decided that the Cape and East Indian stations shall co-operate. Command of the former will be senior to tho latter. The ships on the two are to be interchangeable. These changes are made on the ground of health. • CEREBRQ MENINGITIS. LONDON, sth February. Cerobro spinal meningitis in Belfast and Glasgow: is still spreading.' "THE PECULIAR, PEOPLE." LONDON, sth February. Mr. Justice Redbent, in trying a caße at Chelmsfoxd, recognised the consoientioos convictions of the sect known as The Peculiar People," but remarked that the law providing * for the kind and humane treatment of children, must be obeyed. He sentenced the elder of the seat, named Carter, to two months' imprisonment^ and Clark, a father, to one month for neglecting and causing unnecessary Buffering to Clark's late daughtor. SOUTH AFRICA. LONDON, sth February. Reuter's correspondent at Capetown reports that a strong body, of influential persons representing all South African colonies and all shades of politics have pledged themselves to strenuously promote federation. # DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. LONDON, sth February. The Sonato of tho University of Dublin has adopted a resolution declaring that Mr. Brjrce's scheme would be fatal to tho best interests of liberal University education, besides being unjust to Trinity College.