GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4869, 22 January 1903, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ME BALFOUR’S ILLNESS. (Received January 22, 0.29 a.m.) LONDON, January 21. Mr Balfour, Prime Minister, is convalescent. PLAGUE AT DURBAN. CAPETOWN, January 21. Nino Kaffirs, threo Indians and one European are suffering from plague at Durban. A MURDERED JOURNALIST. NEW YORK, January 20. Mr Gonzales, tho editor who was shot tho other day by Mr Tillman, Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina, in revengo for criticism, has succumbed to bis injuries. AUSTRIA AND TURKEY. VIENNA, January 20. Austria is sending a fleet to tho Adriatic and Levant, to impress upon Turkey the necessity for reforms in Macedonia. BISHOP WEBBER. LONDON, January 20. Dr Webber, Bishop of Brisbane, is stronger, and is resting bettor. SIR F. SARGOOD’S POLPTICAL SUCCESSOR. MELBOURNE, January 21. A joint sitting of both Houses of tho State Parliament, was hold to-day to elect a successor to tho late Sir Frederick Sargood in the federal Senate. Mr Robert Reid, Minister of Education, a Freetrader, was chosen to fill the vacancy. Tho choice of a Freetrader came as a surprise. DROWNED IN STOUT. ADELAIDE, January 21. A cellarman named Castle was drowned in a vat containing stout at the Walkerville brewery. It is supposed that ho was overcome by tho fumes when testing the liquor. THE DUKE OP ORLEANS. LONDON, January 21. Queen Alexandra received the Duke and Duchess of Orleans at Buckingham Palace. PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA. • LISBON, January 20. Tho Portuguese Government has submitted to the Cortes a Bill providing for tho completion of harbours in the province of Delagoa, and tho construction of railways as far as Swaziland.

IMPRISONMENT OF M.P.’S. , LONDON, January 20. The sentence passed in October on Mr John rtoche, member for Galway East, of two months’ and four months’ imprisonment with hard labour on charges of inciting to conspiracy and intimidating, has been reduced one-half,and without hard labour. Tho sentence of five months’ imprisonment passed on Mr Roddy, member for the Birr division of King’s County, has been confirmed. LONDON, January 19. The recently-announced displacement of the Governor of Teheran, Persia, who, it was said, was suspected of British leanings and transferred to another province, is officially contradicted. The death is announced, at the age of fifty-seven years, of Mr Quinton Hogg, of tho London Polytechnic, son of tho late Sir James Hogg, and well known some years ago as a prominent footballer. SYDNEY, January 21. A previous sweetheart, of Kate Ahern (whose lover, Horace Essy, quarrelled with her, wounded her and then committed suicide) is serving a sentence _for attempting to murder her, and inflicting a wound on her throat.