GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4565, 17 January 1902, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

POPULATION OP SCOTLAND. LONDON, January 15. ! The population of Scotland is -1,472,103- , f SMALLPOX. LONDON, January 15. Tiioro arc 914 eases of smallpox in London. .Forty-nine deaths from tho i disease wore recorded last week. MISS! CASTLED. LONDON, January 15. Miss Amy Castles, tho Ballarat soprano, has been engaged for all the next •series of ballad concerts. AN M.P.’S APPEAL. LONDON, January 15. Mr John O’Donnell, member of tho House of Commons for North Mayo, who was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for taking part in an unlawful assembly, has appealed against las .sentence. MAX REGIS IMPRISONED. PARIS, January 15. M. Max Regis, ox-Mayor of Algiers, who gained notoriety as an anti-Semite leader during the troubles in connection with tho Dreyfus caso, lias been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for failing to pay damages awarded in a libel case brought against him. SALVATION ARMY LEADERS. NEW YORK, January 15. Commissioner Booth Clibborn and I is wife (son-in-law and daughter of General Booth, head of the Salvation Army), as they have come to believe in faith-heal-ing, have resigned from tho Salvation Army and joined “Dr’’’ Dowio, loader of the Zion Church, Zion City, near Chicago. MINOR ITEMS. PERTH, January Hi. The now Ministers have taken their seats in the Legislative Assembly. As far as can at present ho ascertained Ministerialists aro in a majority of not. moro than one or two. Lord Hopetoun, Governor-General of the Commonwealth, has sailed on nis return to Melbourne. lie expressed delight with his visit, BRISBANE, January IG. Tho hea,t continues unabated. Two men, named Lyons and Smith, havo died from heat apoplexy at Rockhampton. Much damage has been done to property in various localities by a cyclonic storm.