VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 108, 7 May 1912, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph .—Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 7, 10.40 a.m.) IMPROVING SYDNEY, . t SYDNEY, This Day. The new Lord Mayor (Alderman G. T. Clarke) favours continuing his predecessor's progressive programme of improvihe the city. r ACCESSION DAY. SYDNEY, This Day. Th 6 shipping and the city were gay with bunting yesterday in commemoration of Accession Day. (Received May 7, 10 a.m.) SIR HENNIKER HEATON. LONDON, 6th May. Lord Curzon will preside at the Empire League's reception to Sir Henniker Heaton at the Guildhall. INDIAN PRINCE'S LOSS. PARIS, 6th May. The Maharajah of Alwai (Rajputana, India) while travelling from Marseilles to Pans, lost a case of jewellery valued at £24,000. BURGLARS IN MEI BOURNE* MELBOURNE, 6th May. Burglars entered a fruit shop in th« city and stole £180. EIGHT HOUR DAY PROCESSION. *v r,- ti KKISBANE, 6th May. J.ne Eight Hours' Day procession was a record for display. The Tramway Union carried a banner inscribed, ''Legalised to wear the Badge," and bearing the figure of Justice with the bandage, removed from the eyes. (Received May 7, IQ.IO a.m.) t , BRISBANE, This Day. A feature of the Eight-Hour demonstration was the absence' of bands, due to many of the bandsmen acting as special constables during the strike. BOY SCOUTS. LONDON, 6th May. The Bishop of Willesden, preaching to a gathering of Boy Scouts in St Paul's Cathedral, said that though the niovement was not five years old there were 600,000 Boy Scouts in the British Empire and nearly a million in the world. PRICE OF FLOUR RAISED. SYDNEY, 6th May. The price of flour has been rai&ed 10s per ton, to £9 lSe. EXPLOSION ON A RAILWAY. PARIS, 6th May. Five persons \v«re killed and four seriously injured by the explosion of five barrels of powder on the railway at Nancy. BARQUENTINE HANDA ISLE. HOBART , 6fch May. A Tasmanian firm agreed to purchase the barquentine Handa Isle, 275 tons, .owned by Mr. J. W. Denison, of Auckland, but the authorities stepped in and demanded 30 per cent. duty. It is likely that the negotiations will fall through,