MISCELLANEOUS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 150, 17 July 1903, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

LONDON, Yesterday. Lord Davey has decided the Durham miners are entitled to the August Bank holiday ; 120,000 are affected. A number of employers are being prosecuted, some for breach of contract. (Lord Davey of Fornburst is a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary-) The report stage of the London Education Bill has been concluded, and it has been agreed that the proportion of women on the boards of management be onethird. Arrangements are progressing to enable the Australian team to compete for the Palma trophy at the end of August, 1904. A sum of <£1500 woiild cover the actual outlay, and .£2OOO would enable the team also to visit Bisley. Already ,£SOO has been offered towards the expenses by an anonymous donor. Thß Archbishop of Canterbury, with 25 bishops, dedicated" tkd Tniro Oath* dral. The Prince and Princess of Wales were present, and King Edward sent a message of congratulation on the completion of the edifice. Th"c P. and 0. Company v. Kingston appeal case has been dismissed with costs. The case settles the point Whether the Federal Government have the po^er to collect .duties on ships' stores between porta of the Coium'otfwealth. The "Standard " states th jit tbt? Italian Archaelogical Mission at Crete has 1 df9"-< covered, near Agiarreada, a painted sarcophagus. 2500 years before Christ — the oldest painting found in Europe. St. PETERSBURG, Yesterday. Eight huudred arrests have been made in com Motion with the KishiniefE outrages and 53 indictments for manslaughter are laid. HOB ART, Yesterday. Arrived tins' doming— S.S. Corinthic from London, via Capetown. She brings 9 Australian and 101 New Zealand passengers. MELBOURNE, Yesterday. Heavy rains have been experienced in the country, and floods have occurred. The lower portion of Casfcerton is under water, and 150 sheep have been drowned on one station. Sir E. Barton stated in the House that the Government had been asked to subsidise a line to Canada via the Cape, and another line with ita terminal ports at Tacoma and Seattle, but had declined to accede to the request. A resolution authorising the amalgamation of the Lyell Companies was submitted to the Mount Lyell shareholders to-day, and passed unanimously. Sailed— Mokoia foj Bluff. SYDNEY, Yesterday. Arirved — R.M.S. Sierra, from Auckland | after a fast passage. The s.S/ Esex has been docked. Her damage consists of the starting of two tiers of rivets on esch aide from No. 1 to 2 and 3 hatches. As soon as repairs are effected she returns to New Zealand to take up the July loading. Cardinal Moran leaves for Rome" on Monday. The Horaebajjh sales are firm. Best wethers fetched 21a to 22s 7d ; good, 179 6d to tßa 6d j eweo, best 19a 6d to 22s 9d ; good, 17s 6d. Cattle— values were lower; Best bullocks realised .£l2 to .£l3 7s 6d ; good, .£iO iOs ; cows,, best £8 10s to ,£9 ,0s ; good, £7 15s. Best beef, 30s. ■' , CHRISTCHUHCtf, Yesterday. A meeting of land and estate agents this evening discussed Colonel Pitt's Land Agents Bill, - which provides for licensing such agents. Exception was taken to one or two provisions, notably the clause exempting lawyers and licensed land brokers, but hearty approval was '.. ■ expressed of the bill a a whole. WANG ANITI, Yesterday. Colonel Newall. who has just retired . from the command of the Volunteer dis- . trict, was to-night presented by the omi cers and men of the Second Battalion of the Wellington and West Coast Volun-. teera with a handsome lluminatej addjess and a purse of sovereigns. • * The coat of education in New South t Wales last year, was .£730,000, of which I ,£85,000 was recovered^ i» §<sboo} fees, |