GENERAL CABLES.
THE WAR OFFICE. LONDON, February 25. Colonel E. W. D. Ward, of the Army Service Corps, has been -appointed Permanent Under-Secretary for War, in succession to Sir Ralph Knox. [Colonel Ward entered the army in 1874, and served in the Soudan Expedition of 1865 and the Ashanti Expedition ai 1895-96. He has since been employed on the Adjutant-General’s staff in Ireland, and in. the Home district. He .served in South Africa as A.A.G. in Natal, 1899-1900. J FATAL FIRE AT BIRMINGHAM. LONDON, February 25. Five persons were. killed and four injured through the burning of a house in Birmingham. JESUITS IN SPAIN. ; . LONDON, February 25. Fresh opposition is being shown to the Jesuits in Spain and Portugal, owing to the detention .of several heiresses in Convents belonging to the Order. BLIZZARD IN SOUTH RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, February 25. A . blizzard and i great snowfall :‘at Odessa, caused thirty-seven deaths. Tramcars were buried iu the snow, and trains stepped. ~ , ( : ~, i STRIKE .OF, COLLIERS. ‘;• ’ PARIS, February 2 0. A great, strike of colliers has taken place in the north of France. MURDER BY BLACKS. PERTH, February 25. Mr J. Durack, of Denham station, has been shot dead by blacks,’ and his son severely injured. The police are pursuing the murderers.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4292, 27 February 1901, Page 5
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