VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 36, 13 February 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

*By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright., (Received February 13, 9 a.m.) DYNAMITARDS AT TOULON. PARIS. 12th February. Two large holes were dynamited into the ramparts at Toulon, adjacent to the -powder magazine. The magazine escaped damage. PROTECTING GENUINE CHAMPAGNE. PARIS, 12th February. r A law has been promulgated protecting genuine champagne, [There has been much dissatisfaction, ■culminating in riots last month, among vine dressers and their womenkind regarding -fifae scarcity of work owing to champagne districts importing wines from non-champagne districts, and giving them the main characteristics of genuine invalid Achille Perrier's champagne. In the cellars at Damery, a* town in Ma*ne, 7000 bottles, 2000 litre casks, and forty double hectolitre butts were smashed, and a dray-load of bottles thrown into the Marne. In other places similar damage was done.J TO PREVENT MONOPOLIES. PARIS, 12th February. Owmg to large cornerings of alcohol, the Premier, M. Briand, is legislating to prevent monopolies in food and drink. (Received February 13, 9.5 a.m.) GREENWICH TIME FOR FRANCE. LONDON, 12th February. Arrangements for the establishment of Greenwich time at a given date will be completed within a fortnight. [In December last the Chamber of Deputies passed a measure providing for the adoption of Greenwich time as the standard for France/J ' SUBMARINES. LONDON, 12th February. Three submarines have sailed for Hong' Kong. [Last month three submarines left England for Malta ajid three for Gibraltar. These were the first vessels of the class mentioned to go on foreign service.] THE CREWE HOUSE FIRE. LONDON, llth-February. Further particulars regarding the fire at Crewe House show that Lady Crewe and the new-born heir were taken in, an ambulance to the house of her father, Lord Rosebery, apparently none the worse for the incident. The pictures and objects of art were slightly damaged by water. CHINESE AND CaNADa. OTTAWA, 11th February. The Canadian Senate is considering a Bill empowering the Government to enforce stricter regulations regarding Chinese immigrants. The onus of proof of identity is placed on Chinese aeekmg free admission as merchants and students. MURDER AND SUICIDE. i>ARIS, 11th February. A policeman arrested a youth for passing a counterfeit coin. The youth shot his captor dead in the street, and then committed suicide. OIL LANDS IN ALBERT^. OTTAWA, 11th February. Sixty-one new oil companies have been, incorporated in a single day. They intend exploiting the oil 'land of Alberta, where valuable fields are said to exist. AN ESCAPED LION. MELBOURNE, 12th February. During a performance at the Opera House a lion, escaped into Little Collinsstreet and took charge of the lobby and ground floor of the Temperance and General Insurance Building for an hour and a-half. He was ultimately caged. CHURCH ROBBERY. LISBON, 11th February. The statue of Saint Theresa, in the Carmellite Convent at Olivaes, has been stolen. It is covered with jewels valned at £8000. MINING DISASTER. NEW YORK, Uth February. Sixteen bodies have been recovered from the Cokedale mine, Trinidad, Colorado, in which an explosion occurred. One still remains. The explosion was at the Carbon, Coal, and Coke Company's mine. WIRELESS RECORD. j NEW YORK, 11th February. A world's record for wireless telegraphy has been received at t-he San Francisco station from the steamer Korea, while 4492 miles out. (Received February 13, 9 a.m.) GIFT BY THE MIKADO. TOKIO, 12th February. The Mikado has given a donation of £150,000 for the relief of the poor who are unable to obtain adequate medical treatment. I A THIEF ROBBED. CHICAGO, 12th February. A thief robbed a cafe of six hundred pounds, and was himself robbed at the entrance of the cafe by three "holdups."