YESTERDAY'S CABLES & TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1903, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLES & TELEGRAMS.

' •rVTi'TO TKKHB ASSOCIATION. 1 C •■ I/JUT I' >, Ycsi • . day. 1 The Duke of Connaught in a shoot- ! ing expedition at Shagdur, Central ! India, secured three tigers to his ', own gun during one beat. LONDON, Yesterday. I The ' ' Times, ' ' commenting on Count von Bulow's speech in the 1 Beichtstag, says that Britain's dis- ! • like to co-operating with Germany is very strong, and there will be a general relief when the Venezuelan trouble is ended. The "Times" adds that Britain is determined not to be dragged at the tail of any nation, and must adopt the German policy of looking first after its own great paramount Imperial lptereste.^ Mr Marconi has asked the British Postal authorities to .connect his wireless station at Poldhu, CorawalU with the nearest telegraph office, and accept Mareonigrams like cablegrams. The Post Office is not convinced that the system is commercially possible, or completely secret, and is also hampered by the Kaiser's proposal for an international conference Co discuss the whole wireless system. The Great Britain and Irelana Automobile Club is promoting a bill to enable a race iov Gordon Bennett s cup to be run in Ireland. Britain, France, Germany, and America each send three competitors. Mr Asquith has consented to be : nominated as Vice-President of the Empire League. The "Times" Paris correspondent states that France and Italy have withheld their support of Britain a Dardanelles protest. Pending judgment in the appeal in the Howden case an injunction was momentarily suspended to allow payment of strikers to-day. A ballot of the Derbyshire Miners' Association . showed a majority in favor of a grant of a hundred pounds weekly to the Denaby strikers, without: pronouncing op the merits of th* case. 1 NEW YORK, . Yesterday. | r A whirling incandescent clqu^Lascended from La Soufriere yestercfayj j and then a rapid column of brack smoke and sand fell at Chateau Belair. , . ' The Panama Canal treaty has been ; signed aOtfashington. I MELBOURNE. Yesterday.. Commenting on Mr Robert .Reid's election to the Senate by, the j Victorian House, the "Age" saysj that the State Parliament .Jibs shown a "contempt for FederaXJteeling, and sent to the. Senate. a_can- j dec are op I°,^^ . Yesterday. Tbe Lord ftaybf tf'nWtlng'of influential citizens aMheiTown Hall, held to initiate a fund for the relief of drought suffering settlers. Itf ttab'anndoneed th&t there had already : been received £300 towards the fund, ohiefly. from Ze^lard and Tasmania. The Primate and others made strong appeals on behalf of the set-, tlers, nni gave harrowing details of the sufferings and losses. A considerable sum •\as subsorihsd in tbe. room. AUCKLAND, Yesterday, The price of:flour in Auckland has fallen, the Northern Roller Milling Company announcing a reduction from £13 5s per ton to £12 15s per ton (sacked), less, the usual discount, WELLINGTON, Yesterday. At the annual competition of the Wellington Gun Club the following j divided prize — Annadale, ; Eales, Rosengrave, Chevannes, B »lr listite, Dobson, Campbell, Kyle, Seecombe, Price, Redwood, Mason, Cheeseman, Kelly, Woolven, Johnson, Earle, Buck, Scott, Allan, Whatman, Dimraock, Simmonds, and I Wilson. During the quarter ended December 31st, the amount of. revenue of the Postal Department was £63,058, and of the Tplegraph Department £70,290— t0ta1, £133,348, against £ 193, 732 for the corresponding period of 1901. ITo-night's Gazette contains a roll or nurses registered under the Act of last year. The date of the annual communication of the Freemmasons, to be held in Auckland, has been fixed for May sth.