YESTERDAY'S CABLES & TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 50, 14 March 1903, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLES & TELEGRAMS.

fTOITID PBKSS ABSOOIATIOK.3 VENICE, Yesterday. While the Countess Donigowas walking in her garden at Treviss, near Venice, her gardenei beheaded her with one blow of a sharp sickle, alleging as a reason for the crime than the Countess refused to give him a sack of corn. The man was paid a wage of a shilling a day. r ROME, Yesterday. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is increasing in intensity, and huge voulumns of vapour, resembling flame, are being emitted. NAPIER, Yesterday. A fire broke out at half-past five this evening at IS elson Bros.'freezing works at Tomoana. The Hastings Fire Brigade was summoned, and arrived at six o'clock. There was a hard fight for one hour with the flames. All the roof of the refrigerating room was completely destroyed, but tlie fire did not penetrate the freezing chambers, which were fall of frozen meat, The refrigerators were set to work, and the water that had soaked into the freezing chambers was at once turned into ice, and so the mutton was saved. A spark from the engine room is supposed to have caused the fire. The damage cannot yet be estimated. WELLINGTON, Yesteruay. The rate payers of Melrose Borough by 435 to 140 votes carried the proposal to-day for the amalgamation of that Borongh with this iy< DUNEDIN, Yesteraay. The bakers to-day reduced the price of tho four pound loaf of bread to sixpence halfpenny. HAMILTON, Yesterday. The three Boer delegates arrived here to-day, from Rotorua, and were sbown over the Rupkura experimental farm, by Mr Ritchie, chief of the Agricultural Department. They were greatly surprised at the progress the Waikato ia makings and were pleased with the expsrimental farm.