MISCELLANEOUS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue XXXVI, 30 September 1902, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON, Yesterday. The " Times " Bay* that Mr Wyatt, the N'vy I eagne Envoy's unofficial mission to Conada and Australia is illtimed, coming a il does immediately after the Colonial Conference. The paper ad'lfl I hat in view of t h e colonial de ■ anda needing to be ' an 'Vd with rare tact and discrelion il i\ il L. wiser not to attempt to ii'Tvo (he pace, (Received Sept 30. 1.7 p.m.) LONDON, Yesterday. At the wool s iles all classes were firm bat with less compet'tion. ST. PETERSBURG, Y'strdy. M. de Witt, Russian Minister of Finance, will risit Pekin and Tokio shortly. The nesvppaprs are rrrging the exaction from Tu-key of compensation for injury from thfl construction of the Bagdad railway, which conflicts with Russian interests. HOME, Yesterday. Troops are busy with rescue and salcage work in connection with the storms hi Sicily. (Keceiv«rl Q.4U a.m.) PERTH, This Day. It is clearly established that the Btowaway recently arrested is not the Guilfoyle murderer. ADELAIDE, This Day. The Bieley Kine team hav»* returned, and were *elcomed at the Town Hall. They stated' that probably English and Canadian (earns would n«it Australia next year. SYDNEY, Yesterday. Arrived, Nairnshire from Bluff. The Sjdnny ity is celebrating its Jubilee by a series of elaborate funct ions. BLENHEIM, Yesterday. A Conference of local bodies to-nis>ht made arrangements for the ceremony at Seddon on Friday, 10th pmx, in connection witn the opening of the BlonheimSeddon railway. It was stated that Sir Jcseph Ward, and Messrs Duncan, Jones, and Mills, Minister?, would be present. DUNEDIN, Yesterday. For the A. and P. Society's horse parade 44 entries have beoo received. In the all-aged stallions t here are 21 exhibitors entering from Cbrietchurch to Inrercar- - ill. T^e entries for competition for the Society's first competitions already nnmber orer 400. The Ministerialists at Milton hare ►elected Mr J. A Scott tooppose Mr James Alien for the Bruce seat. WELLINGTON, Yesterday. A deputation of officers and men of tbe returni d Contingents, anxious to settle on the land, waited on the Minister of Lands tu-d&y to urue that something should be d neto enable them to carry out their wishes. The special inducements which arc held out to sellers in South Africa were brought nnder the notice of the Minister, who was asked to do mint thing at once. Mr Duncan said the question was too involved to answer at once, but he wonld give a reply early next week. Newspapers and magazines addressed to Lighthouse keepers un the New Zealand coast in future will bo transmitted frenof postage. On the police making application this ranming to withdraw a charue against a woman who was all ged to be the keeper of a house of ill-fame, on the ground that she had gone to mother district. Mr Haselden, n.M., Baid he thought the , complaints made in country districts about a certain cl«ss of offender* being bunted from tne cities into the country, where they became a standing menace to tbe peace were quite justified. It was not right to s^nd offenders away simply to get rid or" them