AQUATICS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7398, 26 February 1902, Page 3

AQUATICS.

Received February 26, 10.19 a.m. London, February 25. Pearce, the Australian, beat Barry over a mile and a-quarter on the Tyne, for £50 a-side, by ten lengths. Floating ice greatly interfered with the race. [ THE COLONIES AND THE NAVY. Received February 26, 10 26 a.m. , London, February 25. I Mr Robertson, member for Dundee, during the debate on the Naval Estimates, complained that every family in the United Kingdom was paying three ] pounds a year to provide a navy for the ] colonies, which at least were equally i rich. | TRANQUILITY IN SPAIN. " Received February 26, 10 a.m. ; Madrid, February 25. General Weyler assured the Senate , that tranquility prevails in the greater - part of Spain. LABOUR UNREST IN ITALY, j Rome, February 25. j The Italian Government has summoned to the colors 40,000 railway f workers attached to the mobile f territorial army, in order to prevent the j contemplated general strike. One housand Anarchists have arrived. ( INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE. ] Besides the Right Hon. J. Chamber- \ lain's conference with colonial states- \ men dealing with matters affecting \ trade and commerce, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, ] Canadian Premier, convenes an Inter- j colonial Conference on trade and postal | matters and a oable affecting Aus- | tralia, New Zealand, and Canada. | • Possibly the final deliberations of this , Conference will be held at Ottawa. , ACCIDENT TO A NOTED ! SCULLER. j Jake Gaudaur, the Canadian sculler, ; broke his shoulder bone on tbe ice at < Rat Portage, Canada, and it is feared he will be unable to row again. PHILIPPINE TARIFF. Washington, February 25. The Senate passed the Philippine tariff by forty-six to twenty-six. OBITUARY. Received February 26, 10.51 a.m. Sydney, February 26. Obituary: Mrs George Rignold, wife of the well-known actor. PRAYERS FOR RAIN. j _ — • To-day is being observed as a day of i humiliation and prayer for rain. Business, is practically stopped. RAT KILLING. i Next Wednesday will be set apart fir ( a universal rat-killing crusade. Every ! householder in oity and suburbs is requested to lay poison for the plagueproducing rodent. ' ' ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. A man named Lukin, at Marickville, shot his housekeeper, named Bakie, twice, and wounded her brother slightly. ; He then attempted Buicide. He wbb under the impression that the women cruelly treated his children. Lukin and the woman are in a critical condition. ____^___ — __