CABLEGRAMS AND TELE GRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 8 June 1907, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS AND TELE GRAMS.

| _ (Umjxbd Patds Association. — Copi-EJ-3HT.J . AN AMERICAN MURDERER'S CONFESSIONS OF7 TERRIBLE' •CRIMES. ;. - - : NEw"*OßK, "'■ Friday.: In connection with the Stennenburg murder trial Boise, City of Idaho, cabled on May 10th, Orchard testified how, at Haywood's instance, he and S. Adams, wrecked the Providence railway station in order to prevent a split in tht miners' convention by* providing ? a counter excitement. There' were 12 or 14 killed by that explosion. The latter j asked Haywood for 300 dollars, and ' Haywood sent 300 through Pettion while • Adams received. 3W. Orchard narrated 1 how the iriurder. of a detective was j planned by Pettion, who paid him £100 sterling. Moyer and Haywood paying in connection with the fatal mine wrecking, ahd also, with Pettion, paying to kill Stennenburg. He ako paid ior his endeavours to kill tho Public Prosecutor for thwarting the West-am 1 Miners' Federation. j THE N.S. WALES MURDER TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, Friday. The ovidence at the inquest showed that the man Livermore, who killed his wKb and child and then committed suicide, drank all he earned and frequently ill-treated his wife, who worked hard to maintain himself and child. TRADE WITH GIBRALTAR. DUNEDIN, Friday. New Zealand is going to open up trade with Gibraltar, it seems. Mr G. B. Bullock, local manager for the New Zealand Shipping • Company, has received advice that the Kaikoura, which left Lyttelttn for London on Tuesday night, is calling at the - Big Fortress to land a trial shipment of New Zealand meat. The result of this innovation will be awaited with interest. FATAL RESULTOF*AN ACCIDENT WESTPORT, Friday. A miner named John Leece, about 45 years ol age, a married man with ten of a family, died in the hospital to-night a*3 the result of a fall of coal in the Westport Coal Company's Mine Creek mine this afternoon. The deceased was formerly a newspaper proprietor in New South Wales. * THE TIMBER WORKERS' DISPUTE. WELLINGTON, Friday. The Conciliation Board has filed its recommendations in the timber workis that it is proposed to increase the wages of unskilled workers'. Their minimum wages under the current award is 7s a day, but the Board recommends an increase to £2 8s per week, or ls Id an hour outside the city of Wellington, and 45 .hours shall constitute a week's work. DEATH- IN A DUNEDIN SLUiI. DUNEDIN, Friday. A man named John Williams, who was a widower, and 73 years of age, was found dead in his bed this afternoon. His death is supposed to be from natural causes. His surroundings were dirty and squalid. A Post Office Savings Bank Book, showing a credit balance in his favour of £140, was found in the hou.e. MISCELLANEOUS. MELBOURNE, Friday. The High Court, on appeal, decided that Commonwealth public servants were not required to pay income tax. SYDNEY, Friday. The Waterloo Cup final was won by Bladen's Bulwark, Lawson's Longspan being runner-up. It is stated in cricket circles that the suspension of players will be Unconditionally lifted on July lst. Arrived— Hippolas, from New Zealand. ' NEWCASTLE, Friday. Arrived— Newton Hall, from Auckland. { ' PORT DARWIN, Fiiday. r Engineer-Commanderi Silk, who was missing froiri the Governor-General's party, has been found, and excepting that he is in a weak condition, he suffered little from his five days' wandering. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr E. V. Turnbull, who recently returned from .British New Guinea, where he was engaged as a mine manager, has been selected out of 15 applicants for the posi' ion of manager of the Waihi Gold Mining Company. DUNEDIN, Friday. The Mf-ister for Lands has informed Mr T. Mickenzie, M.H.8., that the State lime kilns at Shag Valley are in such a position that they will cither have to be sold or closed. WELLINGTON, Friday. _. On arrival at Adelaide Sir J. G. Ward will travel overland, to Sydney, catching the s.s. Maheno there for Wellington, and arriving here on the 26th inst. The formal oponing took place to-day of the electric tramway track to Mil-a-mar North. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, the Levin Cooperative Dairy Company and the Horowhenui Cooperative Poultry Company were each fined £2 with £3 10s costs, for failing to supply the Registrar of Companies with information required by law.