VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Pre« Aaiociation.— Copyright. (Received April 8, 9 a.m.) CLYDE ENGINEERS. LONDON, 7fch April. The Clyde- engineers asked for £d an hour increase in, wages. They refused an offer of id an hour increase from j July next, and have requested a conference with the Employees' Eederation ] to discuss the matter. , EMPIRE COMMERCE. LONDON, 7th April. The Imperial Chamber of Commerce, formed as a result ox a- discussion at the Congress held in Sydney last year and attended by representatives from Chambers of the Empire, will promote legislation affecting' Empire commerce , and arrange periodical congresses. j (Received April 8, 9.40 a.m.) "ALL EMPIRE WEEK." LONDON, 7th April. An " All Empire week," as a sequel to the "All British Shopping Week, 1 ' i is projected. (Received April 8, 10 a.m.) RADIUM— A BIG ORDER. ! SYDNEY, This Day. The hospital has secured twenty-three parcels of radium, of the valne of £4200. This is the largest order the hospital has ever traced. BIG "GUNS FOR TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, 7th April. ] One hundred Krupp gun© have ar,rived from Germany. A larger consignment is coming shortly. HOUSE COLLAPSES WITH FATAL '■ RESULTS MADRID, 7th April. A house in Granada collapsed, cix out of the nine inmates .being killed. BOYS' AND SENSATIONAL j LITERATURE. j BERLIN, 7th April. There has "been an epidemic of suicides by boys here. ' It is attributed to the reading of cheap sensational literature. ISSUE OF BONDS. NEW YORK, 7th April. i The Government issue of Panama Bonds "has been provisionally fixed for Ist June. MR. ASQUITH'S HEALTH. LONDON, 7th April. The Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, is suffering from a cold, and was unable to attend the farewell dinner to Sir John Fuller, Governor-elect of Victoria. MR. HENNIKER HEATON. LONDON, 7th April. Mr. J. Henniker Heaton, ex-M.P., the advocate of low postage and cable rates within the Empire, is seriously ill. Sir Lauder Brunton, who is- attending the case, has issued a bulletin stating "that it will be some days before Mr. Heaton is out of danger. TRADE DEPRESSION IN JAPAN. SYDNEY. 7th April. The captain of the Nippon Yusen Kaisba liner Yawata Maru, which has jnst arrived from Japan, reports a serious depression in trade in Japan, for which he is unable to account. SYDNEY FERRIES. SYDNEY, 7th April. In consequence of the proposal to establish State-owned harbour ferry services, the Sydney Ferries, Limited, shares dropped 5s 6d to-day.