VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press ABsociation.—Copyrigfc^ (Received April 10, 9 a.m.) VALUABLE PORTRAIT. LONDON, 9th April. Hoppaer's portrait of Mrs. Beridge | was sold by auction at Christie's for £6510. [John Hoppner, a celebrated portrait i pamter, wae born in 1758 land died in 1810.] • v MISSING POLICE PATROL. OTTAWA, 9th April. ' Fears regarding the safety of a NorthWest mounted police pat'-ol ara felt here. The party left Herschel Island, within the xlrctic Circle, in December last, and has not been heard of since. MISSING MAIL-BAG TURNS UP. SYDNEY, 9th April. The bag of registered letters, the contents being valued at over- £30,000, which should have arrived hero from Melbourne at mid-day on Thursday las>t, has been discovered at Brisbane, where it had been forwarded by a mistake. A NEGRO LYNCHED. NEW YORK, Bth April. A mob of 200 masked men at Lawrenceville, a small town in Georgia, stormed the gaol, and secured a negro who had been arrested for assaulting a white woman. The man was hanged to j a tree, a-nd his body riddled with bullets. TRAGIC DEATH." BRISBANE, Bth April. The Rev. Mr. War-ham, a leading Methodist minister, met his deaih at Sandgate under tragic circumstances. He was suffering from "dengue fever, and while in delirium walked into the eea,, and was drowned. FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE. LONDON, Bth April. | The South African Government, on the ; _ ground of expense, has declined to utilise the South African building at the Festival of Empire which Lord Plymouth erected at his personal cost. [When the Governments of South Africa and Australia declined, on the ground of expense, to take part in the Festival of Empire, Lord Plymouth (head of the executive of the Festival) had buildings erected for them at his own cost. It is hardly likely that either will be used.] SHEEP-SHEARING. SYDNEY, Bth April. The sheep-shearing championship of New /South Wales was won by Finneran, a New Zealander, who defeated Alexander, the present holder. HOT WEATHER. SYDNEY', 9th April. There has been a sudden heat wave in the city, with a temperature of 87 degrees, the second hottest to be I'ecorded this year. RAILWAY GAUGES. PERTH, 9th April. The Government has decided to build a standard gauge (4i't B^in) railway from Perth 'to Kalgooiiie, to meet the Federal line from Port Augusta. The present Stato railways have a gauge of 3tO 6in. CHAFFINCH CONSPIRACY CHARGES. PERTH, 9th April. The State Attorney-General is not taking any further action in connection with the Chaffinch conspiracy cases, which ended in the discharge of three accused. DROUGHT BROKEN. SYDNEY, Bth April. The protracted drought in the Gilbert Islands has broken, and heavy rains have fallen. [Practically no rain has fallen, in the South Gilbert Islands for three years. There has been a great mortality amongst infants, the result of their being fed on shark's flesh. Many of the cocoanub trees have died and there has been much distress among the natives. Situated in the Pacific Ocean , the Gilbert Group, composed of sixteen atolls, is bisected by the equator between about 171 degrees and 177 degrees east.] (Received April 10, 10 a.m.) DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. ' SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. John Timmins, aged 110 years, died at the Collarenebri Hospital, after a lingering illness.