GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4771, 29 September 1902, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A NEW COAL-FIELD

(Received September 27, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, September 26. The new coal-field recently discovered on the Earl of Dudley’s Hunley estate is estimated to give a profit of nearly £40,000 yearly. 1

■’ RAINS IN VICTORIA. (Received September 28, 4.50 p.m.) MELBOURNE, September 28. Good rain has been general throughout Victoria. EARL DUDLEY. LONDON, September 26. The Earl of Dudley, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, mado his State entry into Dublin yesterday. He received a cordial ovation.

(Received September 29, 1 a.m.) LONDON, September 28.

Lord Dudley, in receiving tlio representatives of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, said the Government was favourably disposed towards a Bill to obviate the inconvenience and expense .of the private Bills procedure.

MB KENSIT ASSAULTED. LONDON, September 26. A chisel was thrown at Mr Kensit, the anti-Ritualist, while ho was leaving a meeting at Birkenhead, and struck him on the forehead, inflicting a severe wound. Mr Kensit was removed to the hospital for treatment.

THE ROUMANIAN JEWS. ' BUCHAREST, September 26. The Roumanian Government has stopped emigration passes, and many Jews who Were on, the frontier have been recalled to their homes.

AN OVERDUE VESSEL. HOBART, September 27. Fears are entertained for the safety of the Norwegian barque Diaz, which left hero in March last, timber-laden, for Dover.

A DEATH SENTENCE STAYED. MELBOURNE, September 27. . In consequence of the approaching confinement of Mrs Sangal, an order has been made to stay the sentence of death passed upon her for the murder of her husband. MINOR ITEMS!

(Received. September 28, 4.41 p.ra.) LONDON, September 27. Mr Reita’s daughter has started for America.

September 26

The Inland Revenue Department’s claim on the De Beers Company for income tax is for £IOO,OOO only for two years. A motor fire-engine is being experimentally tried in London. Danish residents in London have opened a fund for the erection of a bus* of Shakespeare at Elsinore, in Don- _ SYDNEY, September 27. The Fijian Coronation Contingent has returned here from England, and will leave for Fiji next week. MELBOURNE, September 27. Tho federal Parliamentary session is expected to end on 10th October. PERTH, September 27. It is reported from Hall’s Creek, on the Kimberley goldfield, that the natives are becoming alarmingly bold. A police tracker has been murdered.

CABLE NEWS.

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