Various Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3628, 24 March 1906, Page 3

Various Items.

St. Petersburg, March 21. Twenty men, armed with revolvers, entered the Mutual Credit Society’s Bank in the centre of Moscow just before closing. They covered the assistants with their revolvers and escaped .with eight hundred and fifty thousand roubles in gold and notes, evading the police deputed to guard the banks.

London, March 21

MrJ. Havelock Wilson, General Secretary of the National Seamen’s Union, declares Mr LloydGeorge’s Bill is a step in the right direction. He considered Australasian legislation on the matter was in the advance of British.

The London County Council has granted a syndicate a ninetynine years’ lease of the Aldwych Crescent site at a rental of ,£55,000 per annum, conditional on the erection of a theatre, exhibition building, concert hall, restaurant, and a hundred and seventy-six shops at a cost of

Tokio, March 21

The Japanese internal loan was barely subscribed, though the Imperial household and the banks took forty million yen each. Berlin, March 21.

The chief of the Morengas and his followers escaped and fled northwards after a sharp fight with the Germans.

Colonel Deluding, in the Reich--itag, declared thas the troops in South-west Africa are tied to their base and that only two thou--and men were available for service against the Morengas and Bondelwarts. It was impossible to suppress the Hottentot rebellion without buidling a railway to ’Ceetmansheep in tbe centre of German West Africa.

Calcutta, March 21

India's revenue for the year 1904-5 showed a surplus of £3,(.56,000. It is estimated that the current year will produce a sur~>lus of ,£1,754,700, and the coming year one of ,£874,000. Taxation to the extent of half a million, chiefly on the agricultural copulation, will be remitted.

London, March 21

The loss over the telegraph service of the United Kingdom br the year ending last March, 'Vas ;£987.739-