SECOND EDITION, LATE CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7047, 8 October 1900, Page 2

SECOND EDITION, LATE CABLE NEWS.

Pxb Prxss Association— By Elbotbio Tblkobaph— Copyright. Received October 8, 10 a.m. Paris, Ootober 7. M. Henry Ferrette, Radical and antiSemitio Deputy for the department of the Meuse, and M. Martier, a recently elected deputy, fought a duel. The latter was killed.

London, Ootober 7. Owing to partial suspension of work, the monthly earnings of the Lancashire operatives nave decreased by £40,000 and the cousumption of coal during September was 40,000 tons less than in the previous month. Received Ootober 7, 11.25 p.m. London, October 7* The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Compony have declared a dividend of 5 per cent. • Received Ootober 8, 1.12 a.m. Melbourne, Ootober 7. Archbishop Carr, in the coarse of a Bermon at St. Patrick's, opposed the recommendation of the Religious Com* mission on Bible-reading in schools, and could only now hope that suitable lessons could be drawn up by an heterogeneous commisqion for Catholic and non-Oatholioohildren. The lessons proposed were as Protestant as possible, and suggested proselyttsm as their purpose, therefore the Archbishop urged that Catholics should not be subjeoted to this new and grievous oppression. Reoeived Ootober 8, 11 a.m. London, Ootober 7. The Board of Trade returns for . September show that the imports increased by £2,511,788, and exports in- < creased by £2,185,004. Albant, Ootober 8. Arrived: Lincolnshire, from Cape* town.