VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 124, 24 November 1908, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright . THE EARL AND THE HOUNDS." (Received November 24, 8.55 a.m.) ' LONDON, 23rd November. The United Irish League decline toj permit the Earl of Fingall to hunt wit'tf the Meath. hounds if he is accompanies & by certain opponents to the popular; movement, aiming at the distributicoi amongst the landless of untenantai; lands in the county of Meath. [The Earl, who owns about 1200 acnes, was a major in the Connaught Rang/a rs, and served with the Imperial Yeonvamry in South Africa. Pie was from 18fi2. to 1885 State Steward to the Eavl of Spencer, then Viceroy of Jreland^ atfd. in 1905 Master of the House of '.Earl 1 Dudley.] EPISCOPAL. LONDON, 23rd November. Dr. Edwyn Hoskyns, Bishop of-Siauth-well, has been elected Archbish'a|> of Capetown. [Dr. Hoskyns was born in 18Ci&", ,md educated at Jesus College, Cair/hridge. Ordained in 1874, he became sn turn curate of Wehvyn, Herts ; cvsato at Quebec Chapel ; curate at St. fjlementb, Noith Kensington; rector of St. Dunstan, Stepney ; vicar of Bolt en ; rector of Burnley, and Bishop of Barnley. In 1904 he was made Bishop of Southwell.] SPANISH CONVICTS OVERPOWER GUARDS. (Received November !£4, 9 a.m.) MADRID, 23rd November. Eight hundred SpauipJi convicts overpcwered the guards at. Granada and tried to escape. The soldiers fired a volley and restored (order. GOOD BAINS. (Received Noveß»ber 24, 9.33 a.m.) SYDNEY, Ihis Day. Good monsoonal. rains, ranging to 3in o^ er the greater part of the State, have greatly benefited crops. PAPUAN GOVERNMENT. MELBOURNE, This Day. Judge Misiryay has been appointed Lieutenant-Go.vernor and Mr. Staniforth Smith Administrator of Papaa. [Judge Murray, who before Captain Barton's resignation was Chief Judicial Officer oi the Territory, and prior to that a lawyer in N/bw South Wales, has been Acting-Administrator. Mr. Staniforth Svaith was the Director of Agriculture, Mines, and Lands.] METHODS OF INSURANCE COMPANIES. MELBOURNE, This Day. jV£r. Justice Hood has been appointed a Itoyal Commission 'o enquire into the methods of insurance companies. A METEORITE. ADELAIDE, This Day. A meteorite weighing forty pounds ■was iound at ArlLunga, in the Northern Territory, at a depth of five feet. COMMONWEALTH AND UNION COMPANY. MELBOURNE, 23rd November. Mr. Scott, secretary to the Central Postal Department, does not understand the statement regarding the unsatisfac tory relationship" between the Commonwealth and the Union. Steam Ship Company. He says tha^ a number ot tentative proposals have been made, and Iho Government has communicated with the Canadian Government concerning them, but has not received any reply. [At the luncheon in Melbourne on board the Union Company's new steamer Makura, Mr. Jackson, the Sydney manager of the company, referred to the unsatisfactory relationship between the company and the Commonwealth. So far, he said, there was no agreement for continuance of the Vancouver service. The Makura had beea. built on |the hopes for the future. If the comipany could get a contract for a good term oi years, it would be worth while being in the field. He trusted that the Commonwealth Government would recognise the company's effort* to provide up-to-date steamers.] CHEAP CABLES. LONDON, 23rd November. H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, Lord Roberts, Sir Joseph Ward, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, and many members of the House of Commons have forwarded messages to Mr. J. Henniker Heaton, M.P., assuring him of their warm support of his scheme for the institution of pouny-a-word cablegrams. CASTRO, OF VENEZUELA. CARACAS, 23rd November. President Castro is going to Europe to undergo an operation. REBELLION IN HAYTI. PORT-AU-PRINCE, 23rd Nov. Gereral Simon (?) has headed a iebellion in. Southern Hayti. Government officials at Les Cayes, an important port on. the south coast, have taken refuge in the German Legation. President Alexis has prdered a blockade of tho port. [No doubt General Simon' is identical '.vith General Firmin, who is credited v,ith having been at the bottom of a conspiracy against President Alexis. In March last the situation, was reported to be serious, and the Powers sent warships to Port-au-Prince. By order of the Haytian Government several residents of the city were dragged from their houses and summarily shot, while many alleged conspirators were executed.] WEST AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. PERTH, This Day. Mr. Gregory, Minister of Mines, de-feate-d Mr. Buzacott (Labour), for tho Menzies seat by 52 votes. [At tho general election Mr. Buzacott defeated Mr. Gregory by seven votes, but was unseated on petition. The question which Mr. Gregory brought before the court was whether -nine people who bad ceased to reside in the district for more than three months, -but had voted in the election, did not by that means nullify the whole process. On behalf of Mr. Buzacott it was argued that out of the nine names objected to, four had been protested against by Mr. Buzacott's scrutineers, but had been allowed to vote by the presiding officer. It was also argued that it was impossible to go behind the roll, and that those whose names appeared tj^.tein bw* a "go* to vote.]