VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Teleerapb.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 24, 11 a.m.) APPEAL CASES. LONDON, 23rd April. In the Nsw South Wales appeal case, White v. Williams, judgment was reserved. Leave to appeal was refused in the case, Pietovitch Varawa v. Howajd Smith Company, a claim for £25,000 damages for false imprisonment in connection, with the sale of the steamer Peregrine during the Russo-Japanese War. (Received March 24, 9.30 a.m.) / N.S.W. GOVERNMENT AND WAGES. SYDNEY, This Day. Cabinet has decided to increase the wages of unskilled labourers employed on Government works from, eight to nine shillings a. da}. (Received April 24, 9.40 a.m.) MOTOR CYCLING. MELBOURNE, This Day. The five miles amateur motor cycling championship was won. by Doudy, his time being smin 25sec. TWENTY-FIVE MEN DROWNED. ASTRAKAN, 23rd April. During a storm six boats engaged in the Caspian Sea fisheries foundered, and twenty-five men were drowned. LEASEHOLD TENURE IN FIJI. SUVA, 23rd April. The Governor, addressing a council of chiefs to-day, announced that future grants of- native land — whether to Europeans or natives — would be limited to the leasehold tenure. (Received April 24, 11 a.m.) CARICATURIST FINED. LONDON, 23rd April. B. J. Leed, a caricaturist, who wae charged at the Brentwood Police Court with .showing pictures to little gjrk on Ealing Common, was fined £10. He has lodged an appeal. _^