VARIOUS CABLED STEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED STEMS.

[mESS .Y3SOUIATION.] (Received Juno 1, 3.33 a.m.) THE PORTSMOUTH MURDER. LONDON, 31st May. John Langford Crump, charged with tho murder of Mrs. Crump, a widow, .lia«= been committed for trial at Portsmouth. Ho told tho police that he had beon in the backwoods of Australia, and v/as onco shot and left for dead. Ho was accustomed to live among mon carryirg revolvers. DEFECTIVE AMMUNITION. LONDON, 31st May. The Daily Mail calls attention to defects in tho Mark VI. rifle ammunition, made at Woolwich. Many accidents have occurred at the butts through premature explosions. Large quantities of the ammurition havo been withdrawn. MILLIONAIRES AND ART. NEW YORK, 31st May. [Mr. Frick is one of tho Pittsburg steel ing Pittsburg an Academy of Art to cost a million sterling. [Frick is ono of the Pittsburg steel millionaires who was associated with Mr Carnegie, whoso gifts to Pittsburg and the world are svcll known. He has beon chairman of the board of managers of tho Carnegie Steel Co. since 1892.] WARSHIP ABANDONED. PARIS, 31st May. The French cruiser Chanzy, 4736 tons, costing £360,000, which went ashore recently in Chinese waters, at ono of the Saddle Islands, Hangchow Bay, has been abandoned. CHINESE FAMINE— END IN • SIGHT. LONDON, 31si May. Advices from Shanghai st.ito that tho end of Iho famino is approaching. Tho crops are thin, but thero are favourable, indications of a good yield. [Roughly speaking, tho famine area in China may be said to include- the couth- , orn portion of Shantung, tha eastsrn portion of Honan, tho northern portion oE Kiang-si, and the whole of tho provinces of Ngan-hwei and Kicng-sa. More precisely, its boundaries aro on tha north a line from the neighbourhood of Kueito, in tho north-east cornor of Honan province, eastward crossing Shantung south of Yi-chou, nnd on tho couth a lino from Taiho to the sea. Tho worst portion of thic area, in all about 40,00(> square milos, lier. east of a lino naming north and couth through llsu chou-fii. Tho immediate causo of tli3 t'r.mi'Vj is said to havj bosn the abr.oinrilly high writer in thp Ycn^tpz", which backed up Ul2 watsr in tho Gr.ind Canal, which in turn k;pt back Iho waters of all the strcr.ms running into it, and CUU3CCI tthe."I' 1 to overflow their banks.] PLAGUE. BRISBANE, This Day. Two ]ads omp)oycd at a city hobsl era tufferinrj from p'.ngue. The licensco 13 sv fieri ng from a ourpkious illness. MILITARY AERONAUTS' FATE. LONDON, 31st May. A war balloon, containing Lieutenants CSulfiold and Leak, of tho Roysl Enginnars — both skilled aeronauts — asconded at Aldershot op Tuesday, and was irissing till Thursday, whon it was picked up or/spty, by a fishing smack near Exmcuth. Later. A wireless telegram frovn Scilly IrJcs reported that tha ballconists woro safe, but latoi 1 advices ohow that tho messagn was misread, " Ballco:i sife," bcin« traiisJatod as " Bullconists safe." MOTOR RACE. LONDON, 31st May. A tourist trophy motor race, in tho Isle of Man, 241 miles, wac won by Curtis, in a Rover, in Bhrs 23min 27sdc. BOTHA WELCOMED HOME. PRETORIA, 31st May. General Botha, Premier of the Transvaai, returned from London yestsvday. 110 was enthusiastically welcomed. A LEGALISED MARRIAGE. PARIS, 31tt May. Tha French Chamber of Deputies has pnssed a Bill legalising marriages bstwoon brothers-in-law and aisters-in-law. A PECULIAR POSITION. (Received June 1, 10.2 a.m.) ADELAIDE. This Day. The Court of Disputes has declared tho return of Senator Vardon void, ow ing to the failuro of tho returning ofl}cors to initial 185 papers. But tor this omission tho lata Mr. Crosby would have had a majoi-ity over Mr. Vardon. (Tha enquiry into tho Hon. Joseph Vardon's lpturn to tho Sonato shownd that a number of voting papers in tho Angaa district had beon ournca, and itta Federal Government takes a very grave viow of tho case, which is now being enquired into. It is said that tho ballot papprs and a number of obsolete rolls woro in soparato ba«s in a room, and tho earlev who was told to convey them to tha furnace took tho wkolo lot. fhe Adelaide correspondent of an Australian paper write 3 :— " All of the papers, informal oY otherwise, will bo oxamined, and should any be objected to by cither party they will ba referred to the judgo tor final decision. Should the figures come out in favour of the late Mr. Crosby, his Honour has power to declare him to havo been elected. An extraordinary vacancy would thus be created, but it is said to be arguablo 111 law whether tho provision in the Commosiwoalth Constitution enabling Parliament to fill extraordinary vacancies without recourso to the ballot-box would bo applicable >n a case 6iich as tha present ono. If any irregularities aro proved tho judgo has power to order a ircsh oUetion. By tho dismissal of Senators Symon and Rusf.ell from tho suit the wholo issuo had beon narrowed down to one between tho potitionor and Senator Vardon."] CARTRIDGES FOX MOROCCO • SEIZED. LONDON, 31st May, Eight thousand fiat -nosed cartridges intended for salo to the Mughzan have been ceized in London, aboard a steamer bound for Morocco. Several of tho crew were charged with storing the cartridges >n a manner calculated to cause explosion or fire. REGENT OF BRUNSWICK. BERLIN, 31st May. The Diet of Brunswick, a state of Northern Gormany with a population of 485,958, has elected Duko Johann Albrocht, of MecTiieuTfurg-Schwerin, Regent.