VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 4, 5 July 1910, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

Bj Telegraph. — Press Astociation.— Copyright, (Received July 5, 9.10 a.m.) PORTUGUESE CUSTOMS AND SHIPPING DUES. LISBON, 4th July. In 1911 Portugal intends doubling her \ Customs and Shipping dues against coun- ] tries discriminating against ,her. • DEATH OF AN AVIATOR. j PARIS, 4th' July. In connection with the death at the Rheims Aviation meeting of Herr Wachber, whose Antoinette aeTopilana collapsed when at a height of 2(JO metres, it transpires that the aviator's wife and five-year-old daughter, as well as -his mother and sister, witnessed his death. The wing oi tb* main plane of the aeroplane buckled with a loud crack, and portions of the canvas became de•tached. It is believed that the drenching rain, caused an undue tension on the material. - MURDERS IN AN ASYLUM. PARIS, 4th July. An attendant named Thabius, at the Saint Ylie Asylum at Paris, has been sentenced to seven years*' solitary confinement for strangling three mad patients in his chaTge. Five patients at the institution had died in nine days and were buried without the doctor's examination. Two of the bodies were too decomposed for the cause of death to be traced. Thabius's motive is unknown. FRAUDS BY MEANS OF BOGUS COUPONS. ' SYDNEY, 4th Jury. The. Co-operative Coupon Company has been defrauded of a thousand pounds by the circulation of bogus coupons. TJi© police have seized a printing press and arrested three men. WOOLLEN WORKERS. LONDON, 4th July. At an important meeting the woollen operatives at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, resolved "on« a combined effort to advance wages and improve the conditions of work. MINIATURE RIFLE SHOOTING. LONDON, 4th July. Field-Marsha! Lord Roberts, at the request of the Daily Mail, has organised an annual Imperial miniature rifle competition which will be shot on 13th September, by teams affiliated to the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs, the membership now totalling a quarter of a million. The conditions of the competition aTe : — Ten members in a team ; 25yd& range ; ten deliberate shots, and ten shots La 90sec. ' BANKER SHOOTS HIMSELF AND WIFE. BERLIN, 4th July. Herr Thalmessinger, a German banker, went into a wood at Hamburg, accompanied by his wife. Frau Thalmessinger consenting, her husband shot her, and then committee suicide. He was unable to meet liabilities to London brokers, amounting to (£25,000.( £25,000. SPECULATOR RETIRES. NEW YORK, 4th July. Mi 1 . James A. Patten, the Chicago speculator, has retired from business. Despite his recent losses, his fortune amounts to between £2,000,000 and £3,000,000. [Mr. Patten, member of a well-known firm of brokers, made much money by speculation in wheat and cotton. With others, he was recently indicted by the Federal Grand Jury in connection with an alleged "bull" pool of cotton, in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, and is at present on bail of 50,000 dollars.] MR. ROOSEVELT. ' • 'NEW YORK, 4th July. Mr. -Roosevelt has refused* to be a candidate for the Governorship of the State of New York. [The present Governor, Mr. C. E. Hughes, is not seeking re-election, having accepted, a judgeship of the United- States Supreme~Court.] CANADA AND IMMIGRANTS. OTTAWA, 4th July. Canada hat> decided not to allow bonuses upon immigrants whose passages have been paid wholly oi in part by charitable organisations or out of public money. (Received July 5, 11 a.m.) TASMANIA' LOOKING FOR FRUIT MARKETS. HOBART, This Day. There is a movement afloat to exploit Japan as an apple market. DIAMOND DISCOVERED. ADELAIDE, This Day. A diamond has been discovered on the Pine Creek goldfields. '