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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 18 April 1910, Page 1

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When taken by surprise yesterday Powelka was- armed with two loaded revolvers, but lie was given no opportunity to use them. After his capture yesterday Powelka implored the police to shoot him, or to let him take poison. When captured Powelka was well groomed, and well provided with food, money, arms and ammunition. A view of the nucleus of Halley's Comet with the naked eye, and of tho tail through a telescope was obtained afc 5 a.m. to-day at Nelson. The captors of Powelka are Constables Gallagher, Thompson, Watts and Sylvester, and Probationer Callery. Tlios. Craig, an English ex-convict, murdered a. man and wounded his former sweetheart, and was captured after a long and exciting chase. Ilalley's Comet is reported to have been seen in the morning by the naked eye at Capetown and also at Wellington. Rioting in Changsha, China, continues, foreigners are in danger, and the Governor of Hunan has been killed. The Union Company's steamer Wakatipn is aground in the Tamar river, Tasmania, but in 110 danger. Queensland meatworks butchers who went on strike have resumed work pending a conference to-day. A building trade lock-out in Germany has begun, affecting 1,000,000 workers. The inquest on Crabtree, the Fitzroy (Melb.) grocer found that lie was killed by an incendiary explosion in his shop caused by himself. By a storm in France Farman's aeroplane factory was wrecked, three employees were killed, and nine machines were destroyed. A Japanese "submarine has foundered while manoeuvring off Hiroshima. British newspapers are congratulating Mr. Redmond, M.P.,'on the tactics by which the Irish Nationalists'have "captured" the Government. ' Lord R|osebery Unionists to drop the tariff issue for the present and have a straightout fight on the issue of the House of Lords. The King at present in in Spain and the Queen has returned to England from a visit to Genoa. Powelka, the Palmerston North fugitive from justice, was captured by the police in a loft at Ashliurst yesterday morning. The funeral of Sergt. Maguire, who j was killed during the Powelka hunt at | Palmerston North, was very largely attended at Wellington yesterday. Exceptionally cold weather for the season has. been experienced in Otago, with snow on the higher levels. Labour in the Commonwalth Senato has 23 seats to the Fusionists 13, In a racecourse accident at Morpethville (Adelaide) a jockey and two horses were killed. In the Australian elections' for tho House, of 2,156,339 electors, 1,276,924 voted ((excluding infomals). Of the votes cast at the Commonwealth elections Labour received 633,382 and the Fusionists 577,104, and the Independents 56,448. In sympathy with the timber stackers' strike, the Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union men have declined to handle timber for export. The Wakatipu, ashore in the Tamar (Tas.), lies on a sandy bottom, and salvage will be begun to-day. Further butter in a sound condition has been picked up from the wreck of the Pericles. Madame Calve, the famous singex, has opened her Australasian tour at Melbourne. Balloon accidents occurred last week at London and at Perth (W.A.j, but no one was hurt. Viscount Gladstone, the new Gover-nor-General of South Africa, will leave London for Capetown on 30th inst. An aeronaut at Perth had a remarkable escape from a hot air balloon by means of his parachute. A typhoid epidemic prevails in a Melbourne suburb, several cases being traced to milk. A world cruise by 25 vessels of the Unitde States Navy will be undertaken in 1912. By tho collapse of a foundry at Valencia, Spain, a girl was killed, and 30 persons were injured. About 20,00 employers affecting 22,000 firms in the building trade, have no work to give operatives. It is stated thai the alleged "Jack the Ripper" of Whitechapel, has suicided by poison in prison. Lord Kitchener is expected to resign from the Imperial Defence Committee unless permitted to carry out his Army of the Empire scheme. The death is announced at Auckland of Mr Jas. Holmes, M.L.C.