YESTERDAY'S CABLE & TELEGRAMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue XXXVI, 1 October 1902, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLE & TELEGRAMS

ruNTTBD P83553 ASSOOUTIOK.] BUENOS AYRES, Yesterday. Tlie frontiers between Uuli »na Argentine, and between Peru and Bolivia have been ad l us !S d - „,,,,,„_ LONDON, Yesterday. AldermaD Sir Marcus Samuel -has been elected Lord Mayor of London for the ensuing year. , The cable steamer Coloma on the 23rd September wad busy in lat««g 7 degrees 23 minutes, longitude lf I degrees 18 minutes, laying the Vancouver and Fanning island section of the Pacific cable. , Mr MacOarthy, the aoting editor, and Mr Dwyer, the manager of the newspaper •'The Irish People," against whom 1 summonses were recently issued for charges of intimidation, have each been sentenced to two months' imprisonment without hard labor. PARIS, Yesterday. Zola, just before his death, returned from the country on Sunday. The bouse was cold, and a fire was lighted in the fireplace. Tbe chimney smoked, so the servants lowered the metal sheet, leaving blocks of fuel to smoulder, but opened the windows, closing them again at night. There were indications the blocks burned slowly and exhaled gas, which accumulating in the defective chimney, penetrated the bedroom. The servants knocked at the bedroom door, and receiving no .response, entered the room, and found Zola lying on the floor quite dead Madame Zola was in bed quite unconscious. When animation was restored, she stated she had a headache and asked her husband to open the window. He fell down, and she fainted. The experts say the fumes were the strongest near the floor. SOFIA, Yesterday. The Macedonian Committee de clares that ex-Colonel Jankoff, a Bulgarian, with three thousand combatants sub-divided into bands, leads the insurrection at Monastir. The telegraph lines in that district are interrupted, TOKIO, YesterdayA typhoon, accompanied by a tidal wave at Odawaia, overwhelmed many houses. It is reported that 500 lives were lost. SYDNEY, Yesterday. As sqon as the Assemby met the Premier, who had previously announced that he accepted all respon sibility of the Attorney General's action with regard to Friedman's case, tabled papers in connection with the case. Mr Carrufhers thereupon moved: —"That the "action of the Government in Friedman's case is a breach of the principles underlying the system of trial by jury." | On the motion of the Premier, the House immediately adjourned. The booking for Madame Melba's Sydney series of concerts commenced to-day. The sales represented £1,652. The reception to the delegates to the University Jubilee, who include representatives of a number of English and foreign Universities, in connection with the University Jubilee was a brilliant function. New Zealand is represented by Messrs James Hay, A. Hamilton, J. R. Blair, G. B. Cargill, Eev W. A. Evans, Mesdames Say, Petrie. and Miss CargiH. AUCKLAND, Yesterday.' "5 Mrs Agnes Crocker, of Newmarket, was found in a washhouse at the resr of her residence this evening with her throat cut. The woman had been in very ill-health for some time past, ana was under the care of a nurse. She lies at the Hospital in a serious condition. William Monaghan, a passenger by the train from Auckland to Ellerslie, to-night fell from the train, as it was leaving the latter station, and broke his arm in two places. He was also severely braised on his side and leg, and . it is believed he is aldo hurt internally. The gold returns for Auckland district for the present year to date amount to £525,009, which shows an increase of over £36,820 the yield to the end of September last year. WELLINGTON, Yesterday. • At a meeting of the Opposition party this afternoon, Mr Massey, on behalf of the party, made a presentation to Messrs Pirani and Hutchesoq, who are retiring from active politics. The former received a gold watch, and the latter a silver fish andflj|dessert service. Mr Massey said the Opposition desired to express their appreciation of the good work those two members had done while they had been in the House. They had earned a colonial reputation as keen, able, and earnest politicians, and honest and straightforward men ; which those who had been associated with them knew that they thoroughly deserved. Mr Pirani, in reply, said he had only done what he deemed to be his duty, and he was very pleased to know that his actions had the ap proval of those with whom he was associated, and of those who had sent him there. No one felt more than he did the pang of leaving politics, but he trusted m the near future, he would be able to return again to politics. Mr Hutcheson said if at any other time he could seek the suffrages of his fellow citizens, when he was not in a position to know hope or fear, he believed his destiny would bring him back into politics. Sir William Russell expressed a hope that they were only temporarily parting with Messrs Pirani and Hutcheson, whose health waa then <rribk in bumpers. Sir W. Russell handed to Mr James Allen a handsome silver flower ya3e, as a prpsent from the Opposition pary to Miss Allen, on the eve of her marriage. At a meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night, correspondence was read with Tegard to the proposed visit of a New Zealand team to England. The Jfcgent - General wrote that he was interested in the project, and he had interviewed the football authorities in London, who appeared to think the question of professionalism would prove a serious obstacle. A letter from the English Union stated that the Union could not see its way to relax the professional regulations. The English Union would do everything to make the tour of the New Zealanders a success. The letters were discussed at great length, and finally it was decided that the affiliated Unions be advised that it is possible under the existing rules to send a team to England ; that the Unions be requested to supply the names of players who will be willing to make ono of the team > that tbe Secretary apply to the English Union for information regarding the fixtures, estimated receipts, and cost of maintaining a team of 25 men in England for three months.

A Grafton (N.S.W.) telegram i the Sydney papers states that some stir has been caused by remarks made at the Anglican Cathedral Fair byJArchdeacon Moxun, in reference to a statement made by the Premier (Mr See) at the opening of the fair that he would as soon buy anything he wished as engage in a raffle. The Archdeacon said that, according to the law of the church in that diocese, no raffling, art unions, or games of chance were permitted. He had hoped there would be a recognition of this rule, but saw that this was not the case, as raining under the name of an, art union had been carried on, and, therefore, the Bishop would have a perfect right to deal with him as General Hntton re. ently dealt with officers who permitted insubordination. He would lay all the facts before the Bishop, and allow him to deal w,tli the matter as he thought fit. In the meantime, he would aek the stallholders who received moneys from raffles, etc., to inform the secretaries of the amounts, and he would pay that amount from his own pocket to some local institution of a non-religious nature, so as to wipe out the stain on the parish. Art union sales are now stopped at the fair, and the rchdeacon has paid an amount equal to the art union receipts out of his own pocket to the School of Arts. A subsequent telegram received from Grafron stated that, owiag to the promoters of the fancy fair being held in the rink in aid of the church funds persisting in disposing of goods bjp lottery in direct opposition tc Archdeacon Moxon's expressed wish, the latter had tendered his resignation of the Grafton parish to the Bishop. It appears that statements made at the inquest at Jobn-oneille oa the accidental shooting of a boy by a gua of two boys who were alighting from a trap Lbat tbe township has something of a reputation as a. place where there is much carelessness in the nse of firearms. Residents bare complained that they were not safe from flying shots eren on their Ofmprenmes, and Conßtable Hutton told the Coroner that even when walking along the main streets be bad heard the ' ping "of shote and had' seen objects carried by passers-by bit with pallets, He had appealed to the Town Board k protect the people by passing a by-law prohibiting the promiscuous use of firearniß, bat bis appeals bad not received any attention. Anybody coold walk abroad iu Johnsonville with guns. The Coroner (Mr Ashcroft) severely commented upon this laxity of precaution and tuld William Qnncliffo ana Reginald Clifford the youths who bad the gun which caased the doath of the toy Fisher— that they camo very near baring to answer a charge of manslaughter through tbeii gross carelessness. The jury added a rider I heir verdict to the effect that a bylaw should be passed by the Town Board prohibiting anyone carrying loaded firearms witbin the district.