YESTERDAY'S CABLES & TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 51, 16 March 1903, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S CABLES & TELEGRAMS.

' fTJNITM) PBSBS ASSOOIATIOK.] LONDON, Yesterday. Lord Penrhyn has recovered £500 damages against Parry, formerly Secretary to Ibe Quarry man's Union at Bethesda, for alleging that be bribed traitors who returned to work. The jury considered thai more consideration on the part of Lord Penryhn and that of the moo would produce a happier condition. During the hearing the mcD a scheme of settlement, but Lord Penrhyn rejected it. " " ; Herr Srerdrup has been awarded the Royal medal ; Dr Hedin, the Victoria medal; Isaacksen. Sverdrop's companion ; the Murcuisnn prize ; Burdon, for explorations in Northern Nigeria, has received the Peek award. The King has approved of the Boyal Geographical Society's selection of fresh fields of exploration in the Caucasus and Himalayas. Tbo " Standard " states that General Paprikoff, Bulgarian Minister for War, has resigned. It is alleged that he allowed at vaiioua times army n'flesand ammunition to be stolen and ..distributed by the Macedonian Committees. His resignation is dim to his wish to buy more. Ihe Cabinet Lei cc will he a purely Zankofflst one. NEW YORK, Yesterday. President Castro suspunds Ihe blockade, claiming that the revolution is now circumscribed. General hiera, with 3500 men, has been severely defeated near Coro. BRISBANE,, Yesterday. At the Swimming Carnival the 220 yds championship of Australaia resulted — Cavill (N.S.W.) 1, Craig (N.S.W.) 2, Bainilton (Men Zealand) and Gailoy (Queensland) dead heat for third place. Time, 2minB 36ecs. Hamilton, of New Zealand, won his heat m the 120 yds handicap. MELBOURNE. Yesterday. Arrived- Moeraki. SYDNEY, Yesterday, Sailed — Mokoia. A shipment of 75,000 baga of wheat arrived by the Tacooiai. Yesterday was " Drought (Saturday," and an army of lady collectors onduoted a vigorous campaign in tbo streets of the city nnd suburbs in aid of the drought fund. The collections totalled ,£1570. • Forbes, the New Zealander, has qualified for the final of the Sydney .£lOOO handicap. Major Taylor won hie heat, but owing .to the >ider not pacing it was ordered to be re-run. Tbß Kent Plate, of £50, one mile, reeulted; Mac Donald, Victoria, 1 ; Forbes, New Zealand, 2 ; Walker, 3 A splendid fiuih ; won by half a wheel. Time, 11 nuns 9 3-sth 3ecs. CHRISTCHURCH, Yesterday, The discovery of gold-bearing quartz is reported to have beea made in South Canterbury nt a spot 14 miles from Winchester. Sampleu of the h tone have been sent to the Otago School of Mines, and hare given favourable results. Indiextions of copper and silver were found in the stone. The area in 75 acres, and has be.n pegged out. In the same vicinity a clay, supposed to bo either a pipe clay or .French chalk, has been discovered in large quantities. .TIMARU, Yesteraay. Th Land Board ispent, two and a halfdays in examining applicants for allot ment in the Chamberlain settlement. There were 17 farm and three crazing rnn, and 191 applicants pasaed, 55 failing. A ballot will be held. WELLINGTON. Yesterday. At a meeting of the Directors of the. Manawatu kailway Company it was decided to recommend the , payment of a dividend of 3 per cent for six months, making 6 per cent for the year, and to pay a bonus of 2s p.r share out of undivided profits. WAIHI, -Xeiterday. The insuiances in connection with the Main-street fire this morning were : — W. H. Uoss, building and billiard table, £250 in the Imperial; Eos* and Pearce's boarding bouse, .£5OO in the Royal; Earl's ouilding, £145 on stock and furniture, £45 in the New Zealand. [There has evidently beon a previous telegram which ha ' not reached us.]