VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 121, 20 November 1908, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press Aesociat ion.— Copyright DINIZDLU. (Received November 20, 9.30 a.m.) DURBAN, 19th November. The trial of Dinizulu, the paramount Zulu chief, hus commenced. UNEMPLOYED IN BERLIN. (Received November 20, 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, 19th November. An official census shows that there are 41,468 unemployed in Greater Berlin. [Recently in the Reichstag, a Socialist member stated that there were 420,000 unemployed in Germany, to which the Secretary of State for the Interior replied that there -were, 2 7-10 per cent, of workers in Germany unemployed in July, compared with. 8 1-5 in England and 8 3-10 in France.] JAPANESE NAVAL REVIEW. TOKIO, 18th November, A great review of 110 Japanese warships, exclusive of submarines, was witnessed by the Mikado at Kobe. [In the past five years Japan has built four large battleships and iour big cruisers, besides numerous small navalcraft, and has also considerably strengthened her navy by the addition of many Russian prizes of war. It was originally intended that 190 vessels, including submarines and other small craft should take part in tho manoeuvres at Kobe, the total tonnage of the fleet bein°" 421,853 tons.] UNDESIRABLES. LONDON. 19th November Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, has issued circulars to RSSorders and chairmen of Courts of Quarter • Sessions relative to colonial objections to public or official encouragement being given to the- emigration of persons guilty of offences against the law in Great Britain. Mr. Gladstone expresses the hope that no such encouragement will be given in future. [In September, a London magistrate refused to discharge a habitual criminal with a view to allowing him a "last chance]' in Australia. The Commonwealth I agent in London, in a letter to the press emphasised tho fact that Australia is not a field for the dumping of undesirables. ! Last month a Canadian circular was sent to English judges protesting against the sending to Canada of offenders against 1 the law.] , ! BRITISH WHEAT CROP. LONDON, 19th November. The Board of Agriculture estimate of the British wheat crop is 6,565,370 quarters. BURNED TO DEATH. MELBOURNE, 19th November. A tragedy is reported from the township of Talbot, 107 jnilea north-went of Melbourne, and near Maryborough. A man named Robert Abell and his wife returned to their home last evening in an intoxicated condition. During the night the house was burned down, and when the ruins wero searched this morning the charred remains] of the couple wero found among the debris. SENTENCED TO DEATH. DURBAN, 19th November. The Zulu chief Mjombolwana, who has been on trial at -Greytown, in the Umvoti district, on charges of treason, has been convicted of the murder in 1906, i near Nkandhla, Zululand, of the loyal -chief Sitsitshili, and sentenced to death. MINERS' HOURS. LONDON, 19th November. The Miners' Eight Hours Bill has passed through Grand Committee, and Mr. Gladstone, Home Secretary, has undertaken to facilitate the progress of the measure through its remaining stages. THE GRAND DUKE CYRIL. ST. PETERSBURG, 19th Nov. The Grand Duke Cyril has been reinstated in his army rank, and re-ap-trointed an aide-de-camp to the Tsar. [Tho Grand Duke Cyril is a son of the Grand Duke Vladimir, senior uncle of the Tsar. He has been under a cloud for marrying the divorced Grand Duchess of Hesse.] "THE ABODE OF LOVE." LONDON, 19th November. The Bishop of Bath and Wells (the Right Rev. Dr. Kennion), under the Clergy Discipline Act, is proceeding against Pigott, head of the "religious seoD, whose headquarters is "The Abode of Lovo " at Spaxton, and whose doings have caused much scandal. [Pigott was at one time a clergyman of the Established Church.] PENNY TELEGRAMS. , PARIS, 19th November. Franco has adopted a telegram-letter, enabling the sender to telegraph at nighttime at the ratfc of ten words for a penny, the telegram to be delivered as a tetter in tho morning.