YESTERDAY'S CABLES & TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue XXXVI, 15 December 1902, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLES & TELEGRAMS.

(United Press Association). London, December ii. A treaty between Britain and Abysrinia was entered into in June last defining the buUDdaiiea of the British Soudan. At*. sinia grants Britain tbe right to construct the Soudan-Uganda railway through Abyssinia, also to lease territory near the Itang Baro river as a commercial station. The Sultan cf Morocco has retired to his summer residence Mtkinez is sending strong -enforcements to I'eza, where, through treachery, a iribe opening tire on troops, a panic occurred in a narrow valley, and 83 were killed and many wounded. Mr Kerr Bardic delares that half a million workers are unemployed in Britain, and urges the Government to devote £100,000 to supplement local etiorls to pro rlcla work and food for the destitute. The evidence of the analysts in the Chapman case is that Maud Marsh barmaid, died of antimonical poisoning. Some arsenic was present in small quantities, [The bodies of two wivea of Chapman have recentlybeen exhumed. 1 At the Peninsula and Oriental S.S Com pany's meeting. Sir Thomas Sutherland, chairman, said that when the new steamers were ready the mad boata would atart from Tilbury, while the cargo boata would leave the Albert docks. The outward fares to India would be reduced 16 per cent in January. The Archbishop of Canterbury's two doctors have been summoned, and Sir Thomas Barlow, physician to the King's household, is in consultation. A bulletin issued at 11 at night announcd further loss of strength McKoever, who was charged with the manslaughter of John Kensit, has been acquitted. Paris, December 13. The bakers at Marseille* have struck, and army bakers are replacing them. Owing to some gangs of laborers resuming work at tho quays, the dockers interfered, and compelled the police to retreat. The commissary of police was wounded in the facp during the strugl*_. The gendarmerie then cha'*gpd and dispersed tho mob, apd arrested 15 armed with knivos. The military occupy tho thoroughfares lend in it? to the docks, and frw laborers are beint; protected. A meeting of 8000 naval roservists and dockers censured the Government, and demanded the withdrawal of troops. They threatened violence in reply te) the brutality of the police. The shipowners urge the Government to punish the reservists. The Minister for Marine intends to restore the Mediterranean squadron to a war footing. MFLBOURNI*;, Yesterday. At the Austral Wheel Meeting-Mile .* Cbainpness, Gudgeon, Forbes ; won by a wheel : time, .mm S:i 2o li Si*c_. Ten mile : Beauchnnp, Morgan, Leuis: won Ley a foot ; time. '-.mm. 8 1-o'h sees. I Svo.nkv, December K>. Cavill has put up a new world's swimming record 100 yards in 59 seconds,