VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 15, 19 January 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrifhlt, (Received January 19, 8 a.m.) THE POPE'S INDISPOSITION. ROME, 18th January. The Pope's gout troubles are only occasional. His Holiness has resumed the giving of audiences as usual. PARAGUAYAN PRESIDENT DEPOSED. BUENOS AIRES, 18th January. The Minister for War in Paraguay has assumed the Presidency, foicing the President and Vice-President to resign. A HOAXER. PARIS, 18th January. In connection with the statement made by Miller (a supposed American), that he had been tied to a tree and robbed, it transpires that Miller is a mere hoaxer. He is not an American. His real name is Rosenblum, and he was expelled from Germany, since when he had been living from hand to mouth. FRENCH TROOPS AMBUSHED. PARIS, 18th November. Advices from. Casablanca, Morocco, state that natives ambushed a French, column, and that Lieutenant Marchand (quartermaster) ,and three native soldiers were killed and six wounded. DISCONTENT. SYDNEY, This Day. There is serioxis discontent throughout the Commonwealth postal service. A strong agitation in favour of reforms is in progress, with possible developments. COMING REFERENDA. - MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. Murray (Victorian Premier) and Mr. Kidston (Queensland Premier) conferred on the- question of the coming referenda campaign, and agreed on united action. PORTUGAL AND RUMOURS OF FOREIGN INTERVENTION. LISBON, 18th January. Colonel Machado A " Minister for Foreign Affairs, attributes to impenitent reactionaries the rumours anticipating foreign intervention in Portugal. REJOICINGS IN GERMANY. BERLIN, 18th January. There is great jubilation in Germany at the fortieth anniversary of the proclamation of the Empire.. CANADIAN TIMBER. OTTAWA, 18th January. The lumbermen are urging Sir Wilfrid? Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister, to include lumber in any preference agreement which may be arranged with Australia. BRITISH' CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. LONDON, 18th January. Mr. D. Lloyd George, Chancellor of ■the Exchequer, who has been unwell for some time, it progressing favourably. GERMAN IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. BERLIN, 18th January. Germany's imports in 1910 amounted to £430,450,000, and the exports to £373,350,000. USE OF ELECTRICITY IN COLLIERIES. LONDON, 18th January. Mr. E. Kilburn Scott, Lecturer in Engineering at Sydney University, in a paper before the Mining and Electrical Engineers' Association, on the use of electricity in New South Wales collieries, argued that when mine electricians' certificates were granted in Britain there should be a reciprocal recognition of j colonial certificates. . DEATHS FROM PLAGUE IN ! MANCHURIA. | PEKIxV, 18th Januaiy. j Two hundred deaths from plague are occurring at Chun-chia-ton, Manchuria, daily. The Russo- Chinese sanitary authorities are co-operating in fighting the epidemic. COAE SEAM DISCOVERED. MELBOURNE, This Day. The discovery of a six feet seam of coal on the coast, near Inverloch, is reported, GRUESOME FIND. MELBOURNE, This Day. A bag containing a human leg was found in the bush at Frankston. The police are investigating the matter. ! IRISH BLIGHT. i MELBOURNE, This Day. j Reports indicate a serious spread of Irish blight in the potato areas. LIGHT RAILWAYS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. PERTH, This Day. The Legislative Assembly passed Bills providing for the construction of light railways in the wheat belt. AUSTRALIA'S FIELD ARTILLERY. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Federal Defence Department is purchasing 1228 horses for the purpose of equipping the field artillery. ANOTHER CRUISER. MELBOURNE, This Day. Preliminary arrangements are being made to secure raw material for the construction in Australia of a third -cruiser.

It is remarked by the Southland News that an Ashburton farmer, who has been on a visit to Southland. as surprised at the area of good agricultural land there, and thinks Southland possesses the largest acreage of first-class level land of any province in the Dominion. He notes the improvement effected by the drain plough and liming and the activity in erecting cheese factories. "Still (he adds) Southland is not without drawbacks — such as rabbits, thistles, and bad roads — and of the three the lastnamed is the worst. Not that ihere is an absence of excellent material for road-making, but there seems to be an absence of capable road-makers. Large boulders are carted on to the road instead of broken metal." This, explains the News, vvould seem to apply, to the Western district principally. There is, in the visitor's opinion, a "great future ahead of Southland.'-