VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 102, 2 May 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 2, 10 a.m.) BOWLING CHAMPION. SYDNEY, This Day. H. Moses won the State bowls championship, beating Chapman the holder, by 31 to 22. MARYS' GIFT TO THE QUEEN. ADELAIDE, This Day. The Marys of South Australia have contributed S&7 towards the Queen's Coronation gift. MYSTERIOUS AE.ROPLANE. MELBOIIKNE, This Day. A mysterious aeroplane was seen on two occasions last Saturday passing over Melbourne at a, height of several hundred feet. THE WARSHIP CAMBRIAN. NORFOLK ISLAND, This Day. The warship Cambrian sailed for New Zealand last night. DOMESTIC SERVANTS. SYDNEY, This Day. The Government proposes to bring out English domestic servants. CENSORSHIP OF PICTURE SHOWS. SYDNEY, Thia Day. The Government considers the censorship of picture shows has become necessary. (Received May 2, 9 a.m.) COINERS' PLANT SEIZEp. LONDON, Ist May. Coiners' plant worth £500 was seized at Clapham, . and a- Frenchman found on the raided premises arrested. A DENIAL. SYDNEY, Ist May. Mr. Beeby, the State Minister for Labour, denies having said that he would limit the hours of women workers to six .per day. FATAL EXPLOSION. SYDNEY, Ist May. Mr, Boyd, a publican at Nowra, was fatally injured by the explosion of a cask of rum which came in contaob with a light while lie was handling it. AUCKLAND GAZETTED AS PLAGUE-INFESTED. MELBOURNE, Ist May. Auckland has been gazetted as plagueinfested, but it is not intended to hamper shipping unduly. CAMORRIST OUTRAGES. ROME, Ist May. Eighteen Gamorrifits have been captured in the neighbourhood of Vesuvius, where they had pillaged scores of villas during the past few months. Franoese, a priest of San Gennareillo, was among tlie captured. He had led the xaidß in lay attire. SCOTLAND'S POPULATION. LONDON, Ist May. , Further census returns show that the population of Scottish towns is practically the same as in 1901. In many country districts the popula. lion is declining. [Scotland has an area of 29,796 square miles, nearly one-fourth of the area of the United Kingdom, and about ono320th of the British Empire, exclusive of India. The population at the census of 1901 was 4,472,105— a little less than tho population of London — constituting rather more than one-tenth of the population .pf tho United! Kingdqm, andi about one-twentieth of the population, of the Empirß, exclusive of India. Th© town districts, with a population ofj 2000 and upwards showed an average increase of 10.58 per cent, over 18&1; the villages with a population from 300 to 2000 showed an increase of .05 per cent., and tho rural districts a decrease of 4.60 per cent. In his roporl published in 1910 the Registrar-General for Scotland says the outstanding feature cf the viull statistics of Scotland for the year 1909 was the lowiu?ss of the birth, death, and marriage rates, for ea,ch of these was the loweit recorded.] BRITISH AND FOItEtGN BIBLE SOCIETY. LONDON, Ist May. The British and Foreign Bihlo Sooisty, (.hiring 1910, is-nted seven million Bibles, Testaments, Gospels, nncl Psalterr, in 432 languages. Embossed Bibles for the blind were published in 33 languages. < LThe British and Foreign Biblo Society was established in 1804, and by 1910 had issue* over 222,000,000 Bibles and portions of tha Bible, in 424 languages and dialacts. Tho Society has thirty agents in foreign countries, under whom there in a staff of 1100 colporteurs.] A WARSHIP LAUNCHED, LONDON, Ist May. The Conqueror, one of the "contingent" Dreadnoughts, has been launched at the Clyde. [The Conqueror is a battleship, one of the 1909-10 contingent ships." She is being built at the yards of Messrs. W. 'Beardmore and Co., Paimuir.]