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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 15 September 1910, Page 1

SUMMARY.

Mr. Muleson, radiographer at tho London Hospital, has undergone six operations for injuries from X-rays. A boy in a box-cart was killed and another was injured in a collision with d. Sydney tram. Phillips, found guilty of the murder of his daughter at Willoughby (Sydney) has been sentenced to death. Tho Governor of Hongkong is appealfor £IOO.OOO to place the University oii a satisfactory basis. The intention to place an Hungarian loan at Pax is has been, abandoned. A French tourist bureau is being established to improve tho facilities of travel. Eight deaths from cholera, have occurred at Marienbad, in Saxony, where 100 contacts are. in quarantine. Captain Boyle, of H.M.S. Duke of Edinburgh. which was stranded, has been censured for negligence. A Dreadnought graving dock at Renfrew is recommended by the Parliamentary Committee. Tho Adelaide slaughtermen's dispute has been settled on the basis of 275. 6d a| 100 for sheep and lambs. Conciliation in the Canterbury shearing dispute has proved in vain, and the Ota go dispute will be heard this week. The land tax debate has been resumed in the Commonwealth House of Representatives. The> annual meetings o£ the Nelson Trotting and Anglers Clubs were held last evening. Three female chairmakers on strike appeared on the platform of the Trades Union Congress at Sheffield'. Mr. Snow den. Labour M.P.. emphasises the existence of a crisis in, British trades unionism owing to internal divisions. A brancli of the new political labour party has been, formed at Wellington. At a Wellington no-license demonstration last evening a prompt and democratic vote on Dominion prohibition and legislation this session were demanded. At the Wellington no-licenpe demonstration Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P., threatened the formation of a political party unless they were given the legislation they ■ demanded. At a Journalists' Congress banquet in London Sir Geo. Reid said that the Australian press was worthy of the highest traditions of tho 'British press. The jewels of the Countess of Antrim have been stolen at Winnipeg, Canada. The Yass-'Canberra capital site is in jeopardy 'n the Australian Senate, and a tie vote at best is expected. The Victorian Uovornment is taking drastic measures to prevent the spread of the potato disease. The use of aeroplanes in the French Army manoeuvres compelled generals to modify tlveir tactics, n . At its annual meeting the Nelson Retailers' Association decided to disband, owing to lack of financial support. Racialism has become an undisguised issue in the South African election campaign. / About £-10,000 damage has been done f o Italian warships by a storm in the Gulf of Taranto. Ninety-six British Territorial Army officers resigned during Augirst. The Okitu bacon factory, near Lrisborne, was destroyed by fire last night. has won £22,000 for aviation in the United States. The German Minister of Agriculture declines to relax the regulations prohibitive of the importation of cattle. I-lassun, an Alaskan salmcu-cacning township, has been destroyed by fire. Commander Roper, of the Canadian Navy, declares that a cruiser squadron is better suited to Canada's needs than Dreadnoughts. The official report of the Hudson's R213- CinadiaD grain youto is entirely favourable. waters in Victoria have invaded the town of Horsham, several houses being partly submerged. Melbourne business . men are protesting against the proposed Federal land tax as malevolent to landholders, and tending to raise city rents. The N.S. Wales Assembly has been dissolved, in view of the general election now on. The von Zeppelin airshin No. 6 has been destroyed by an explosion ot' benzine at Oos, near Baden. Tf the Canterbury shearers' offer to work for £1 a 100 be refused, after tomorrow 22s 6d a hundred will be demanded.