MISCELLANEOUS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 91, 7 June 1911, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

% WHOLESALE ‘-'GRAFT'’ DISf CLOSURES. New York. June G Several Ohio State legislators have confessed to accepting bribes. It is believed the confession will forecast disclosures of wholesale legislative graft. Several indictments are pending. LIBELLING A PRIEST. Rome, June 6. The Criminal Tribunal sentenced an ex-priest named Verdisi, now a Methodist, to ten months’ imprisonment, besides inflicting a fine, for libel in alleging that Farther Bricarelli had violated secrets of the confessional, revealing to the Pope the names of certain modernists. LUMBER TRUST./ New York, May 11. A Federal enquiry has opened into the alleged existence of a United States lumber trust. The grand jury seek to establish that an organisation for restraint of trade exists. CANADA’S TRADE WITH NEW y ZEALAND. Ottawa, June 0. The result of Canada’s fiscal year, just concluded, shows that the trade with New Zealand amounted to £300,000, an increase of fSu.OOO in the year. The automobile trade is developing. THE BATTLESHIP NEW ZEALAND. London, Jane G. The battleship New Zealand will be launched on July 1. A GIANT CUNARDER. London, June C. The keel plate was laid at Clydebank to-day of the giant Cunarder Aquitania. which will be Britain’s biggest beat.

HOLIDAY CROWDS. London, June 0. Rive hundred and sixty thousand people attended the White City yesterday. 157,000 visited Kcw, 150,000 Hampstead Heath, and 63,110 Earl’s-Court. STRIKERS’ LIABILITY. Capetown, June G. In a test ease, one of the members of the Typographical Society who proclaim ed the strike was fined £3O and costsfor breach of contract. \ RUSSIA AND JAPAN. London, June 0. Router’s St. Petersburg correspondent states that the Council of Empire Ini: adopted the twelve-mile limit in cornice ■ tion- with the Amuri coast, operatin' half a year after notifying Japan. “ PETER THE PAINTER.” Manila, June fi. A stowaway from Singapore has ben arrested on suspicion of being Peter the Painter.” The Consulate is investigating. I ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIOM. OF PERSIAN REGENT. • Teheran, June 6. Two women, probably men disguised, attempted to assassinate the Regent, y, while the latter was driving. No arrests have been made.