VARIOUS CABLES.
By_ Telegraph. — Press Association. — Copyright, (Received April 15, 9 a.m.) VICTORIA'S NEW GOVERNOR. LONDON, 14th April. Sir John. Fuller, the new Governor of Victoria, with his family and suite, have left for Melbourne. There was a large gathering of relations and friends at St. Pancras station to bid them farewell. Among those present was Sir J. W. Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria. CHILD KILLED BY A TRAIN. . LONDON, 13th April. The Great Western express, while passing through Chester crowded with holiday-makers, dashed into three children, who were playing on the line, and despite the frantic efforts of the driver one of them was cut to pieces. , * ENVERBEY MARRIES A PRINCESS. CONSTANTINOPLE, 13th April. Ab a reward for services rendered) during the revolution, Enver Bey hae married the Sultan's niece, a daughter of Prince Suleiman (a younger brother of the Sultan's). BRITAIN AND PORTUGAL. LISBON, 14th April. Britain: and Portugal are negotiating for a commercial treaty. JACK JOHNSON. NEW YORK, 13th April. Johnsoa, the champion heavy-weight boxer, will be released from gaol on Easter morning. He has served ten days of the twenty-five imposed for exceeding the motoring speed limit. MUCH MONEY. PEKIN, 13th April. There . are persistent reports that £6,000,000 in gold, part of the late' Dowager Empress's hoard, has been secretly shipped to England. A TURNER. LONDON, 13tn April. Turner's picture, "The Calais Packet Boat," has been sold for £40,000. It will go to America. BLACK HAND OUTRAGE. . NEW YORK, 13th April. . A nitro-glycerine bomb was exploded in Chicago by members of tEe Black Hand Society. It broke hundreds of i windowe and started a panic, but there were no fatalities. ARREST OF SPIES. BERLIN, 13th April. The arrest of the gang of ep^ies at Schweidenitz was due to Russia informing the authorities that --he had been offered plane. ' GRAPE AND RAISIN CROPS KILLED. 1 m NEW YORK, 13th April. j It is estimated' that two-thirds of the Malama shipping grapes' and seedless ! raieins of the San Francisco distinct | have been killed by frost. Damage has aleo been done in other districts. AEROPLANING. PARIS, 12th April. M. Pierre Prier, who rnonopla-ned from London to Paris without a. halt, covered 226 miles, via Dorer, Grisnez, and Boulogne, in three hours fifty-six minutes. He crossed the Channel at an altitude of 3000 ft. BANDITS IN MEXICO. MEXICO CITY, 13th April. Bandits (not insurgents) robbed a train, taking £20,000 belonging to the Chihuahua Mining Company. ! A REPORT DENIED. OTTAWA, 13th April. . The report 'that Mr. Clifford "Sifton is to be High Commissioner for Canada in succession to Lord Strathcona i 6 denied. (Received April 15, 9.10 a.m.) j PARIS, 14th April. M. Leplanc aeroplaned 71 2-sth miles I at Pau, in sixty-three minutes. This is a world's record. I
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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