VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

Hy Tej«??irli.-- ffesi Asi«eia',!<KL--(kHtyflgUi, (Received September 13, 8.5 a.m.) JaCK JOHNSON. LONDON, i2th September, The- SporUffliati staUw l.het Jack Johnson, th« champion pugiikt, has rattceUcd his Australian Wnii'. (Received September i 3. 9.30 a.m.) A PASSAGE BKOKKtt PINED. LONDON, 12th September, Thomas Cfcskhc of Finchtey, was lined £3 and £<i Cs costs. 1 at the Highgate FoVim Court for acting as a passage broken without having a license. The Board uf Trade prosecuted at the instance of Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent* General for New South Wales, Mr. Coghlsiii finding it necessary to protect Intending emigrant «. (Received September 1/ 1 p.m.) GERMAN CAVALRYMEN DROWNED. ' BERLIN, 12th September. A detachment of Uhlans was crossing Mie Elbe when an officer and ten men were drowned. (Received .September 13, 11.30 a.m.) A FAREWELL. i ' LONDON, 12th September, , . The" Life-saving Society gave a farewell supper to 15. O, Finlay, the Victorian swimmer. Finlay had an en•thltsiflStic s*ettd-off. ANOTHER CItATER OPENED tN ETNA, ROME, 12th September, Another cwter has opened on Mount 'Etna. Lava descended at the rate of half a kilometre an hour, REPUBLIC OF PORTUGAL RECOGNISED, LISBON, 12th September. /Jieftt Britain, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain have recognised th© Republic of Portugal. .VICTORIAN SAVINGS BANKS. ' MELBOURNE, This Day. Vot the year elided 30th Jiine, the deposits in the Victorian Savings Banke • amounted to £l7 y 274,424, an average of £29 0s 9d per depositor, against £15,417,858 and £27 10s in the previous year, NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS. MELBOURNE, 12th September. The Postmaster-General (Senator Thomas), replying to a deputation headed by Mr. Deakin, which protested against) the early closing of the post offices, replied that the new regulations saved the* Department £70,000 at y«ar,