MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 October 1907, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

[United Press usoci ation. — CopyEiGHT.J LONDON, Thursday. Mr Bet-tram Mackennnl, the Austra lian sculptor, has been commissicned to execute the statuary for the new St. Paul's cross. Lord Brampton is ill. and in a critical condition. (Lord Brampton is better known to the multitude as Lord Justice Hawkins — the clever and eccentric Henry Hawkins, an advocate ' distinguished in many famous trials, ' notably in the trial at Bar of the Tich!>nrne Claimant. He was Judge of I the High Court from 1876 to 1899. In ■ the latter year he retired from the Bench, and was created a Peer, and called to the Privy Council. He is 90 years of age.) The Newmarket Jockey Club Stakes reunited as fol!ows : Saucy 1, Larig 2. Kuroki 3. MELBOURNE, Frday. The Council of the Employers' As.«o"iition of Australia is organising against 'he new "protection" movement. The •him embodies an attempt to take ov;r the control of business, reducing employers to the position of ovcrie^ia. ' " WELLINGTON. Thursday. The time within which the Nightcaps mine fatality Commission of Inquiry is to report is extended to November Ist. The "Gazette" announces th-t M* 1 Ernest Jevilv Redward, barr'ster. of 1 Wellington, is ar>noin*cd Arsis-tin? 1 Law Officer to the Gov?r«m?n«-. Cantain J. T. Bcsworth is .••no'-in'-nd Tpf"l!igence Officer frr the Auckland i yiit-arv district. ' The Postmnster-Ooner'l forty's th« ' c rw-TT^in^ of c<-irresr>onrli-nre rr tVn is- " -i'<? of money orders in fn-"ur of RenT ■ R. Gennert." Oporto. Porti"" 1. or Cun- ' liffe, Russell and Coy., Place de la Bourse. Paris. ..