GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 6 March 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Pjiess Assoc^vtio^.~£!op*rioht.J p LONDON>March 5 * A conference of the Church CoaiJeil at \is..ditvcussing the question of religious -j*ucbtion, \Velsh disestablishment, . and ,tae relations of Capital aVid Labo{iti ■ OTTAWA, March 5. • Official permission, has be.en -accotded tfte Varicouver Carets to- tour Atifttsua as representative Of the Canadian Sixty boys willleave in. July,* 1 and mil be absent for five.months.; . ' A search party fcrtvnd. A missing . hiair carrier at Juake : pa it ly-e at en by wolves. The mail bags' mid also bfc<4ti devoured. The ishht four wolves before : he succufhwadi- ' SYDNEY • Marcfc's.;' F. D. Browne was remanded week on a charge of conspiring ; wkthi John McPherson to "defraud 'the Singer Sewing Machine Company of £12,740, and'also of stealing £4l, the property of the same firm. .-Bail nr' ; £IOOO was - allowed. - k MELBOURNE, March 5. Queensland has 1 bean granted a loam of a million from the federaltrust funds at 3A per cent. .. . . ... V There are 78,964" old age. pensions itr operation; in the iPofrimonwealthj,. r6'presenting an expenditure of two million. A NEW SOUTH WALES FIRE, (Received' 9.40 a.m; j ■ |i, SYDNEY, This Dajrl In. another country'-fire, 'at three shops, a bakelioOM, "pKvate residence w«re destroyed. Lack' qi jWater hampered the fighting. . 'Qie damage is £4OOO. ~ •'• ; r EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID. [Received March 6, 9150 a.iti.J LISBON, March-5. Owing to impure water typhoid is widespread in the city. BAD WEATHER, AT AUCKLAND. . AUCKLAND. March 5.;, Urifavoui-able ''weather coritiftueV:': at Auckland, and, small coastal ale delayed. Reports from state that heavy ..rain'; res'ulted floods, and many houses' pecially in the lower O'f ;tn%- town. The stock insho£>s and furniture \vasseverely damaged. Land chips wfero numerous. ■- , SUPREME COURT. NEW PLYMOUTH, Match, 5. Walt'or Jame s Ross_ wasfou'nd guilty of theft and receiving etolen goodly penitence being deferred until to-morrow - .- • Thomas McMillaiv was found. hop... SUilty of the detention-, of, "postal p&CKets.'. . PRESS ASSOCIATION DELEGATES. GREYiMOUTHy Matcli' t The delegates to' the I 3 t have had delightful / weathen iti!, Gfeyj mouth, and yesterday the lasS df .tll'eni 1 left overlaid for : Ohrißtdjfi^clr^•• 'tfpid , delegates express themselves''well with the i Coast and :are at the prospects and progress/ol the district. ;V-' UNDERGROUND. TRAINSFOR. SYDNEY. _ ' :V . (Received 10.55 ,a.'ift\j>'i Ui v ' SYDNEY; Thia'Day. .1 Mr. McGowen, Premier) state's ?thayto the near future the preee'nt system •of trams will be superseded by undergroiltid rails. • ■' .. •./'>;»'! - LABOUR CANDIDATES TO BE WAGE EARNERS. - (Received 10.55 ' MELBOURNE, This Day. Among the proposals for consideration at the Political Labour Council isi, dhe containing a provision that , rtlh Labour candidates for Parliament arid- oth<ii' public bodies must be wage earners.' MOUNT MORGAN MINES, (Received 10.55, a.m.) , „ .. BRISBANE, This Day-. ' During February the Mo'unt : .Rloi*gatt gold reduction.. works, .treated 5254. toft's ore, which produced 365 ounces gold. The copper reduction works treated 17,784 tons for 512 tons blister copper, containgold. The yield was affected by tlio strike of a section <>f the ,jn v 6n f controlled from Brisbane,- caiil.&g a temporary shutting down pi tlie worKs. PURCHASE dF PICTURE. (Received Mafcli 6, 12-40 p.m.) ;, London, March. The Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool has purchased the ..picture "Bon Jour" by Bess Morris, of Melbourne. BYE-ELECTION. . , (Received JVilarcli6., i.4fl bm. ) . : S :. The South Manclie,ster Jbyig-ei&tion .resulted—'Glazehrook (Unionist) 7051 ;. Haworth (Liberal), ,6472. , . TERRITORIAL EXAMINATIONs(Received March ,6, i.^0.p1m.V.,; ~ . Mar l ch,sj The iollowing have tion examinations for theilfew staff: Captains Browne,. Poiter;.-X)wiß|n, Lieuts, Melville, Morrison, Bosworth, Lampen, Burgess, Morton, King, Blair,, Hnme.jJSkelley. .Artillery : Captain Symon (Hythe),V Liciit. Standish.__, v.