SECOND EDITION. LATE CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7424, 1 April 1902, Page 2

SECOND EDITION. LATE CABLE NEWS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.— BY BLECTBIO TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT.) BRITISH REVENUE. Received April 1, 9.10 a.m. London, March 31. British revenue for the March quarter totalled L 58,342,000, Customs contributing L 9,916,000, excise L 9.082,000, stamps L 2,080,000. The property and income tax for the year yielded L 34,540,000. PURCHASE OF ARMY REMOUNTS Mr Charles Cowper, of Sydney, in a letter to The Times, urges the Govern* ment to contract for the purchase of a certain number of three-year-old horses for ten years from private breeders in Australia at a fixed price. He considers there is a good stock of horses of a olasß proving themselves the best in South Africa. AN EDUCATIONAL MISSION. The University of Chicago has deputed Mr Alleyne Ireland as special commissioner to study all the European colonies in the Far Fast (including the Philippines.) AYRSHIRES. Received March 81, 9.30 p.m. Sydney, March 81. At the cattle sales in connection with the show, three Ayrshires, the property of Mr John Grant, of Invercargill, were sold for 20, 32, and 40 guineas respectively. FRANCE AND TURKEY. Received April 1, 0.32 a.m. London. March 31. . A Yellow Book dealing with the reoent trouble between Franoe and Turkey shows that Franoe threatened to retain the island of Mitylene unless Turkey yielded. Russia supported Franoe throughout. ENGLISH EDUCATION BILL. The permissive clauses of the Education Bill will probably be abandoned. THE CONDOR. Sir Charles Cameron, father-in-law of Sehlater, commander of the wrecked Condor, declares that she was undermanned, under,- officer eel, and unstable, and was lost early in December. PARISIAN SHOPKEEPERS AND * THE KING. Received April 1, 12.15 a.m. London, March 31. Parisian shopkeepers lament King Edward's abandonment of his visit to the Continent in favour of ayachting tour, and J attribute it to objectionable comments in a portion of the French press. BULGARIAN ATROCITIES. Macedonians residing in Athens are petitioning the Powers to intervene to prevent the Bulgarians creating atrocities in Macedonia. MUTINY OF ITALIAN SOLDIERS. ■ Rome, March 81. Four hundred soldiers belonging to the railway reserves mutinied at a parade in Milan, and shouted " We want to go to Tripoli." They were arrested. It is believed that the soldiers instigated the revolt. BETRAYING MILITARY SECRETS. A photograph found amongst Colonel Grimm's papers proved to be the portrait of a widow with whom he had been living at Charkow, and who acted as intermediary, often travelling abroad, to allow documents to be photographed, and restoring the originals within four days. ; [Knowledge of Grimm's intrigue led to his undoing by his wife. |

'THE SHAH. The Shah of Persia spends a week in London in July, then twenty days in Buesia. A FATAL WIND STOBM. Nbw York, March 31. A wind storm at KnoxviUe, Pennsylvania, unroofed the church. The roof fell, and forty-five persons were injured and are not expected to recover. A church at Grenville collapsed, and the pastor was fatally and many of the worshippers seriously injured. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Adelaide, April 1. Under the new Constitution Act, both Houses of Parliament dissolved yesterday, and a reconstruction of the Ministry, of four instead of six members, made. The revenue of the State for nine months decreased by £330,000 compared with the last corresponding period. ' A BAD TIME. James McDonald fell from a bicycle and broke bis leg. He lay for three days and nights foodless and waterless. He is recovering. PLAGUE. Beceived April 1, 9.58 a.m. Sydney, April 1. The plague patient Bott is dead. SHOW ATTENDANCE. Estimates of the Show attendance by various officials average as high as sixty-four thousand — a record. ATHLETICS. Mortens Desmond won the High Jump Championship, clearing Oft 3in. | BUSSIA AND PERSIA. Beceived April 1, 10.59 a.m. London, March 31. The Times of India states that residents at Bandar Abbas, in the Persian Gulf, assert that the Russian steamer Kormloff landed sixty thousand rifles.

Wanganui Regatta was very successful.

The conference in Wellington of Flour Millers' Employees Unions, has decided 'to recommend the federation of the various Unions inthe colony.

The regulations under the State Forests Act have been amended co as to provide a penalty of £50 for trespassing in any forest.

Mr F. McGuire, M.H.R., baa rooeived a letter from. Mr J. J. El win, Seoretaryof the Warea branch of the N.Z.F.U., in which he Bays : " You will be pleased to hear that, following your remarks on your recent trip north, the Warea branch has passed the following resolutions, ' That this branch of the Union protests against the withdrawal of the Kawhia lands from sale, and further protests against the purchase of lands by Government for sab-division and lease while the country possesses millions of acres of Crown lands unoccupied and unproductive.' "

i A very pleasing little ceremony tdok place at the railway station on Saturday, when the staff assembled, to say good-bye and make a presentation to Mr O. Hamilton, on the eve of his retirement from the railway service and bis departure for England. The presentation was in the form of a traveller's companion. The station master, in making the presentation, spoke in high praise of Mr Hamilton's good qualities as a workman and a comrade, which complimentary references were endorsed by all present. During Mr Hamilton's stay in Hawera he has taken keen interest in cricket, being a member of the Star Club.

Crowds of people disported themselves at the Waingongoro and Zigzag beaches on Good Friday and Easter Monday. The bathing at the Zigzag was perfect, and scores indulged in it, but it is Btated that two sharkß, 6ft and Jgft, were caught by the natives near the Waingongoro,

Addressing a maßß meeting at Napier, the Premier said: "Speaking personally, I can only say this, The success that has attended me through life is. owing to a great extent to this fact : lam what I am. I don't wish to to be taken any different, to what I am. There ate many men who when they get into a position seem oblivious to what they were, and want to become something they are not. I say it is a great thing to be natural, to be what yon are. With me, I believe jt to be just and proper to always speak out plainly, irrespective of the consequences. As your representative in the Mother Country,jl don't promise anything more than that. I will endeavour faithfully to represent the people of this colony."