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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 15 April 1910, Page 1

SUMMARY.

Richard William Hall, solicitor, of Ohakune, has been struck oil' the rolls. By a fire at Wangauui last night the Strand Cafe was gutted. It has been decided to expend over £30,000 in the extension of the Evans Bay patent slip, Wellington. Sydney wharf labourers have decided to co-operat e .with the timber stackers on strike. Tli* remains of Sergt. Maguire, who was shot at Palmerston North, allegedly by Powelka, probably will bo interred at Wellington on Sunday. Mr. Pettit opened the Nelson Mayoral election campaign at the Theatre Royal last evening. It is announced that the four Australian Dreadnoughts will bo completed by 1913. Judgment has been reserved in tho appeal in the income tax prosecution of bowron Bros., Christchurch. The funeral of Michael Quirke,_ who was shot.dead by a searcher in mistake for Powelka, was largely attended at Palmerston North yesterday. Another of the Otway smallpox patients at Sydney is dead. The first of four German Dreadnoughts which will not await improvements is about to be built at Kiel Germany now has 13 Dreadnoughts and four Invincibly built or under construction. The Connecticut (U.S.) county gaol has been destroyed by fire > six " renien being killed. The Melbourne "Age" says that as a result of the Federal elections the Fusion Government probably has received its death-blow. An anarchist just released from prison fired four shots ineffectually at a judge in Paris who had sentenced him. A French court has certified that an idiot, unless otherwise disqualified, was entitled to the franchise. Women, indignant at a threatened riso in meat fines, rioted and closed 100 New York butchers' shops. Big Island, in the Kent Group, was on lire recently, the glare being seen 80 miles away. The British Parliamentary Labour Party has cabled congratulations to tho Au.-tralian Party on the election successes. By thn explosion oj; 130 tons of dynamite in the roadstead the town of Kobe, .Japan, has been greatly damaged. The marine inquiry into the loss of the steamer Pericles has exonerated the captain and the officers from all blame. The wreck of the Pericles in Flinders Bay has been located, with the mast 18 feet under water. A Labour motion in the House of Commons to enable trades unions to pay members' salaries has been adjourned. The German steamer Sonneburg, from Adelaide, has put into Aden with a hold afire. Lord Rosebery's proposals for House of Lords reform will be referred with tho veto resolutions to a committee of the House of Peers. In the event of a dissolution following the rejection of the veto resolution by the Lords the Government will seek supply to cover the election period. Mr Dcakin, Federal Premier, attributes' the Liberal defeat at the elections to lack Of interest and information among the electors. It is probable that, in view of election results, the Commonwealth Government will re ign, giving place to a Labour Cabinet. Mr Fisher, leader of the Commonwealth Parliamentary, Labour party, says his Government will safeguard all interests in common. A maternity home on the lines of the St. Helen's Homes was opened ai Napier yesterday by Lady Ward. A New Zealand football team to play in New South Wales and Queensland leaves the Dominion on June 3rd. The Newcastle (N.S.W.) coat output last year decreased 1,700,641 tons, value £635,229, ■compared with 190 S. There are yet a large number of returns to come in with regard to the Australian referendum on State debts and the Financial Agreement. Blacks on the Victoria River, Northern Territory o f Australia, speared a station manager, and looted his stores. The veto resolutions of the House if Commons will be introduced in the ■ louse of Lords before the spring recess. The wreck of the Koi went on her beam ends and lost her funnel this morning, and pumping operations are suspended for the present. Local labour will replace the Koi )n even keel, and the Tcrawhiti will resume pumping operations when the ivcather is more favourable.