YESTERDAYS CABLES & TELIGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 16, 21 January 1903, Page 4

YESTERDAYS CABLES & TELIGRAMS.

(TOITID VUtSB ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, Yesterday. Mr Hanbury will introduce an Adulterated BuHer Bill before Router's Agency states that a Constantinople chemist's assistant named HotchiKian, belonging to Erzerouni, a supposed revolutionary emissary, shot Monsignor Ormanian, the Armenian Patriarch, in the shoulder during mass. M. Blowitz succumbed to appendiNEW YORK, Yesterday. Master Mechanic Christianses, the builder of the American sixteen inch gun died from overwork the day before testing it.. The Marconigraph enabled chess matches to be played between the liners Philadelphia and Lucania ■'oiD-' to New York. ° " PARIS, Yesterday. The Chamber of Deputies has voted half a million francs to assist distressed Bretons. Owing to fierce tribal fighting on tho frontier of Algiers, the French Algerian cavalry is mobilising. VIENNA, Yesterday. Four civilians at Krzeniysl have received sentences varying from three to fifteen months, with one day each week without food [spent on a plank bed, for selling military secrets to Russia, The Reichsrath had a 54 hours' sitting, owing to the obstruction of the Czech; party. MELBOURNE, Yesterday. The State Parliament met to day. Sympathetic references were made in both Houses relative to Sir F. Sargood. Tho Council adopted a resolution placing on record its high appreciation of his public services, and both nouses adjourned till to-morrow in respect to bis memory. The Austral took fifty-seven thous-; and pounds worth of specie from Melbourne, and the Britannia £609,---000 from Melbourne and Freemantle. With the evception of £56,000 all is for India. SYDNEY, Yesterday. Thes.s. Moeraki, from Wellington, made a fast trip of 78 hours, and averaged 15?. a knots. Following the death of His Excellency's private secretary, the Governor's coachman has been drowned while bathing at Mossvale. A tragedy has occurred at Moree. A youth named Horace Ezzy, object ing to his sweetheart, Kate Ahem, going to a party became incensod at Her insisting, and attempted to cut her throat, inflicting a slight wound. He then fatally cut his throat. Another shipment of 2400 tons of Argentine maize has arrived. CH RISTCHUROH, Yesterday. At a meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Swimming Association to-night, it was decided to offer in various centres gold and silver medals for schoolboy championships. Mr Hamilton (Christchurcn) is to be asked to represent the Association at the Australian Swimming Championships to bo held in Brisbane in February. DUN ED IN, Yesterday. Richard Daniels, an old man, was found dead in his hut on Pine Hill, where he lived alone. He steadfastly declined to go into the hospital. Mr Carew, S.M., to-day declined to cancel an old age pension in a case on which the Deputy Registrar put in a number of convictions for drunkenness, as do convictions had been recorded since the last renewal. In a case in which a mistake had been mado as to tho property of the applicant, tho Magistrate reduced the pension by £2 per year, and ordered a refund of the amount overpaid, y I WELLINGTON, Yesterday. A sewn io iiku drteiliu^, belougiug to Johu Jacobs farmer, at Pabuatanui, has been destroyed ny fire. The lusniauoes urt £250 on the bouse and JCIOO on ihe lurniUe in the omnierciai Union. j At. auction to-day, land having a frontage of 111 teet lo Wilus-streea and Ij9 feet to uhew's Lane, t-oid by the executors of the late llobert Laery, was puichiised by Mr Jobn Duihie for £19,000, ur £17U per f joi. It is undeisiood that the purchuser was acting on behalf of the City Council. The pi ice is a raccrd one for tuat part of the city. A party of Boor farmers, who are travelling in Australia Inspecting the .system of agriculture, leave Sydney for New Zealand on February 7th, accompanied by Captain Fitzpatrick. Mr Seddou has wired that the Government will give every facility for the visi tors to make themselves acquainted with fanning in New Zealand. The Premier has received a cablegram from Captain Fitzpatrick, dated Sydney, January 20th : — ' ' Start from here on February 11th with a party of Boer farming delegates. Please reply if this suits you." Mr Soddon replied that the dato was suitable, and that every facility would bo given them to make themselves acquainted with farming in New Zealand. Ho also enquired what port the party had sailed for. In the past two or three years a movemout towards a greater Wellington by the amalgamation of the Borough of Melrose with the city has beon in progress. Negotiations have been vory 6low, but now it seems that the ideas of the promoters of the scheme are on the eve of being successfully carried into effect. It was announced at the meeting of the Melrose Borough Council to-night that an agreemont had been arrived at, As to tho basis k of the amalgamation of the two districts the Melrose Council has obtained the consent of tho. city— (l) To tax each ward of the former borough for an extension of tramways into such wards, instead of taxing the whole borough as was at first proposed; ("2) to a concession to levy city rates for water and drainage as against a tax for actual cost ; (3) to a concession to expend £30,000 for street improvement in the borough. Arrangements will be made next week to take a poll of the ratepayers on tho proposal.