MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11737, 20 September 1906, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

London, September 18. A man named Shaw has been arrested at Santiago (Chile) on a charge of embezzling 9000 from the firm of Noyes Bros., engineers, of Sydney. The prisoner has arrived at Liverpool en route for Sydney. Shaw was book-keeper to the firm, and absconded to Chile. A dozen police, with the greatest difficulty, repelled a furious attack by the peasantry on an emergency man who was guarding the house o f a dispossessed tenant at Ballingeary, Tipperary. The police charged with fixed bayonets and fired in the air. Several of the police were wounded. Ten members of a secret society in Southern Nigeria implicated in fhe Agbor rising have been sentenced to death. Forty of the culprits were deported to Western India, including the King of Owa. Sir F. Lugard has resigned the High Commissioners!) ip of Northern Nigeria. The wool arrivals to date are 101,000 bales; forwarded direct 30,000 bales; available for sales 90,000 bales. An Australian wheat cargo sold at 29s 6d. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,510,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,415,000 quarters. A typhoon greatly damaged shipping at Manila. Many deaths were caused, and business was at a stand still. Brussels, September 18. The woolwashors at Vervins, in Belgium, have sruck owing to the details of the appointment of work in the slack season not being acceptable. The textile manufacturers thereupon decided on a general lockout, throwing twenty thousand idle. Berlin, September 18. Leading German newspapers suggest that in the event of Queen Wilhelmina being childless th c snocssion to the Crown of the Netherlands should revert to the Prince Consort's family. Amsterdam, September 18. Leading Dutch newspapers discredit the foregoing sugestion, and urge the Government to confer universal suffrage, enabling the nation to declare their wishes how they desire to be governed in the event cf the Orange dynasty becoming extinct. Constantinople, September 18. Turkey has granted the Smyrna Aidlin Railway Company a 50 years' prolongation of concession, the right to the extension of the line to Lakes Egardir and Baldur. This great success ia due to the action of Sir Nioholas O'Connor, the British Ambassador.