CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7364, 16 January 1902, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association. — By Electric | Telegraph. — Copyright. IRISH M.P. APPEALS. i Received January 16, 9 a.m. London, January 15. Mr John O'Donnell, member of the House of Commons for Mayo North, has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for taking part in an unlawful assembly, and has appealed against the sentence. DOWIE CONVERTS LEADING SALVATIONISTS. New York, January 15. Clibborn Booth and his wife, son-in- \ law and daughter of General Booth, as they have come to beliave in faithhealing have resigned from the Salvation Army, and ioined 'i Dr " Dowie, the leader of the Zion Church, of Zion City, near Chicago. FINANCE EXTRAORDINARY. Received January 16, 9.85 a.m. London, January 15. During the examination into the London and Globe Finance Corporation affairs, Mr Whitaker Wright, deputy Chairman of the corporation, alleged that he allotted blocks of shares, to the press, including representatives of the Financial News, Financial Times, Mr Brousson (of the Citizen), Truth, the Daily Mail, the Australian Mail, and Mr Stuart Cumberland (of the Empire). SMALL POX IN LONDON. There were 944 cases of small poz and 49 deaths in London last week. AMY CASTLES. Miss Amy Oa3tles, the Australian singer, has been engaged for all the next series of ballad concerts. POPULATION OF SCOTLAND. The population of Scotland is 4,472.103. I MAX REGIS. Paris, January 15. Max Regis, ex-Mayor of Algiers, who gained notoriety as an anti-Semite leader during the Dreyfus trouble, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for failing to pay damages awarded in a libel case. UNION BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. Received January 16, 9.40 a.m. London, January 15. The Union Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of eight per cent, after placing £25,000 to reserve, £10,000 to reduction of premises account in the colonies, and carrying forward £14,500. WESTRALIAN POLITICS. Perth, January 16. In the Assembly the new Ministers took their seats. As far as is at present ascertainable the Ministerialists are in a majority of not more than one or twc. FOR SOUTH AFRICA. Received January 16, 10 a.m. Melbourne, January 16. Five hundred who produced the necessary security have received permits to go to South Africa. LORD HOPETOUN. Perth, January 16. The Earl of Hopetoun, GovernorGeneral has sailed on his return to Melbourne. He 'expressed delight with his visit. HEAT CAUSES DEATH. Brisbane, January 16. The heat is unabated. Two mea named Lyons and Smith died of heat apoplexy at Rockhampton. DAMAGE BY CYCLONE. Much damage was done to property in various localities by the cyclonic storm. SHIPPING. Fremantle, January 16. Arrived: China, from London. Passengers for New Zealand: Mrs Kemp, Misses Kemp, Jenson (2), O'Hagan, McTuck, Rogers, Locke, and Messrs Locks, Soames, Napier, and Packe.