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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 26 January 1911, Page 1

SUMMARY.

The Mexican insurgents have been routed in a recent engagement with* the Federal troops, SO being- killed:At a conference in London on, sleeping sickness it was recommended tbat the Cape to Cairo railway- should touch as little & s posible on affected' areas. —, , i The Canadian Board of Trade complains that the influx of negroes urito Alberta and Edmonton is deterring v.-hite settlers. A new wireless station has been erected at Point de 'Galle, Ceylon. The £4,905,000 5 per ceat Chilian loan at 98 i s meeting a good reception in London. There is hope at Capetown that when ihe cargo of the stranded steamer Aotea is discharge*!, the hall may .be'saved.' Thre e alleged forgers at; Sumner, Washington, (U.S.), resisting arrest, : «re supposed to be also murderers. It is rumoured that the State of Sonora, headquarters of the Mexican insurgents, will secede 'from th© federation. The two Paris youths who murdered and robbed a bank messenger have been sentenced to_death. The Committee to provide ,f°r tire entertainment of oversets troops in England has been v revived for the Coronation, period. At ithe inquest on the Clapham murder a watch chain pendant worn ,by Beron and the accused Morrison, were shown to be identical. By six votes to three. Wellington local bodies have decided to continue Wednesday as the statutory weekiyr lalf-holiday. Some English newspapers announce that the ratification of the Declara : tion ofjLiondon will be postponed tiU discussed by the Imperial Co-nfeience.* .iGerman newspapers" are' 'assuming that if the British th'e Declaration of London be (refused, privateering will be > revived. i •;« Mr Horation Lyon, of Wellington, was mutilated and 'killed by a- train -while crossing; the line at Trentham , .racecourse yesterday. The annual; conference of'the New / Zealand Institute of Surveyors is being held at Dunedin. The registration clauses of',tlie new '• Sh'o.ps and Offices Act were scathingly criticised by a meeting <J£ retail-, ' drapers at - Dunedin yesterday. '- • ' 1 Th'e Buluwayo community ia angered at Lord 'Gladstone'&• "comments when reprieving r-a native unttef death sentence for assault on ,a white woman. ■" ', A« Dutch farm hand, who murdered , his faiher in Washington State'' ■JTTJS.) ciaims, justification. tinder ' "'the unwritten law." " ' • , ' *•' By the neglect of* a civil feervant, • the Parisiana castaways were wit/li* cut food on the journey front ~ Ai,bany to Perth* (W.A.) (about' 24 hours). - .; ~* >Vt" - « \} The Westralian Governniefti is complaining of French repfe'nish the'food cache on St.. Paul Is-. tend, where the castaways were marooned. s '. ' - .A n elderly coliplo.'were '.li.arnfc. ,to dfat'h in bed at Hobart, tllb origin Oi the fire being unknown, •■ * Sir Geo. Clifford, and' Miosis'."Albert Cohen, J. Rowe. R. H. Nolan, and G. B. Donnelly, are'tlig"Commission to issue totalisatar licenses iih<der the Gaming Act. ' . , A South Australia labour .jdurnalisfc who came here by t'He Rrttorua emphatically denies misconduct among the girl immigrants. Part of the Biitish national "debt may be ' converted into £s. bearer bends ,to attract -small Investors, v Mr D. G. Phil'ips, a New York journalist wh<o was shot by it madman who suicided, has succumbed to his wounds. The South Australia Premier ' supports the Commonwealth referendum at a means to checkmate Legislative Council obstruction.' " , - ' N.S. Wale s Roman Catholics - dro urged by the Education .Conference Ito observe 24th May as Australia • 1 Day instead of Empire" Day. > . 'Cardinal Moran, Sydney, say s tiitot many who observe Imperialism and Empire Day are avowed enemies of the Roman Catholic Church! The Board inquiry in bo the Richmond (Vic.) railway disaster , has fined <yr dismissed train officials convicted of neglect. > ' , Fifty immigrqant youths for |arm service under the Sedgewick scheme hays arrived hv the Athenic and are being distributed. * . - Tlie Athenic, arriving at Wellington yesterday, brought 611 passengers for New Zeala-nd, including 117 tt&sft'ted immigrants, i • N j i Australian imports ilast year increased by £1.286,342 and exports £9,178,691 over 1909. The anniversary of the birth-of Robert Burne' was celebrated by "t/he Scottish Society last evening. The steamer Eastern is ashore air Salamander Point, on the Queensland Coast. i , Dr. Mackay's Antarctic Expedition will starf from England about August next, and be absent two years. Strikes continue among the Welsh/ miners, and violent attacks nave been made at Llanellj^