MISCELLANEOUS WIRES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 21 October 1911, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES

(Press Association. —Copyright.)

LONDON;; Friday

Mr. Foster, am artisb .is suing for a divorce from his wife, who is also an artist. Beechlam, .an opera imjpressario. \s\ tine co-respondent. The case is exciting -much interest. MELBOURNE, Saturday. In tho Senate a Bill to prevent military and naval men selling decorations was read a third time. SYDNEY, Friday. Obituary. —Lady Suttor, ..wife of the President of Uhe Legislative Council, has died after a sh-ort ilhicss. The passengers by the Eastern, who were quarantined owing to a ctuae of smallpox on board, have been released. Obituary : Serjeant Ignatius O'Brien, formerly a reporter on "Freeman's Journal" and Solicitor-General for Ireland.

Tho stamips show at the Philatelic Contrrcss. exhibition were valued at over £50,000. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday.

A cable message from England wa? received in Chrisichurch to-day announcing the death of Major G.\H. Hutt'on. a son of the la.te Caiptain F. W. Hutton, formerly curator <>f the Canterbury jiu:«um. Major Hutton was educated in Christchurch. He obtained a commission in the Royal l Engineers, and served in the Byter war, where he gained the D.S.O. distinction. His death was the result, of an accident. He was 45 years- of age. J) U N EDIN, Friday -

The Otago Trades and Labour Couneil v ]ast evening passed a resolution emphatically .pretesting against any ~ri-vatcly-er::Arolled railway being constructed in the Dominion.

Tu the Magistrate's Cynrt to-dav before V.r WiWdov.-rnn. S.M.. the Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board claimed fi - om the Southland Hcsr>i!:il and Charitable Aid Board £2l, being the amount*expended bv the Otiago Board in providing ehauilabls aid for Jin; J. W. Sm-Ttli (Fairfax) and her familv. Decision ,wa« re-served. O AMARU. Friday.

The Oamaru Chamber of Commerce supports, the si!jr«.p.?.tion for a second cable from Australia to New Zealand to be la.id frohi Melbourne to the Tahiti'. PALMERSTON N.. Friday.

A poll was taken to-day on proposals to va'.-e t-hrffl loaim for' a- new library. £5255 :swiminiinc bath*. £4940: and prr.blic works. £12.220. All threw .were thrown out by flic ratepayers, th-e two ibnik'er bv very hi«r majorities. " ' " 17FT1FTON. Friday.

Tlie •'Jjiantrahua Times*' reports oy. reliable authority that the new discovery at Rnowy River, near Waiuta.- Already the ground brinMe? with peps. The W-es-tpcrt syndicate's claim is looking remarkably'well and the general average specimens * shew remarkable prospects.