VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1904, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

("press association.] A VALUABLE PICTURE. (Received December 6, 8 29 a.m.) LONDON, sth December. A picture by Roinney has been sold for 6500 guineas. It was purchased a few years ago at a country sale for twenty shillings. RELIGIOUS UPHEAVAL IN WALES. LONDON, sth December. Evan Roberts, collier and student, is the leader of the Welsh Religious Revival movement which is causing o, great upheaval. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. LONDON, sth December. The Times correspondent says there is bitter feeling in Vienna regarding Germany's hectoring attitude over the commercial treaty with Germany, and hinting that Germany will possibly refuse Austria, the "favoured nation" treatment. Germany is, adds the correspondent, endeavouring to abrogate such arrangements, notably with Britain and America. CAPETOWN, s,th December. At a congress at Brandfort it was decided to ask for responsible government. Ex-Generals De Wet and Hartzog were commissioned to interview the Government on the matter. . THE LONDON UNEMPLOYED. (Received December 6, 9.43 a.m.) LONDON, sth December. Ad a nucleus for a Mansion House Fund the sum of £15,000 has been privately subscribed in London towards the (scheme for relieving the unemployed. SENTENCED TO DEATH. LONDON, sth December. Jos&ph Tee, a pig butcher, was convicted after a third trial, and sentenced to death on a charge of murdering John Flanagan, a produce dealer. DEATH OF A NOVELIST. The death is announced of Adeline Sergeant, aged 53 years. [The deceased lady began professional life by teaching, but subsequently made literature her profession, and joined the staff of the Dundee Advertiser. Among her works are "The Story of a Penitent Soul," "Beyond Recall," "No Saint," "The Surrender of Margaret Bellarmine," "Out of Due Season," "In the Wilderness," "Caspar Brooke's Daughter," "Seventy Times Seven," "Told in the Twilight," "The Common Lot," and "A Soul Apart."]