GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6111, 13 December 1898, Page 2

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

r- « r ' (Received December 13,1.20 a.m.) is London, December 12. '' An official of the United States s Treasury is engaged in studying the , c administration of tho island of ,1 Jamaica, as a model for Puerto Rico. s General Rafael Iglesias, President d of Costa Rica, one of the Central s American Republics, has sailed for h Eut'opo. lie intends to visit London K and Paris, ? Mr William Conway, who in October last successfully ascended the II great peak of Aconcagua—22,BG7ft , r —ou the Chilian frontier, intends to ,s attempt the asceufc of Mount Sar;e mieiito. e It turns out that the person-sup-s posed to bo an Auarchist—who e forced an entrance into the Bank of s England at midnight is a demented English gentleman. E The Admiralty authorities have invited the fishermen of Newfoundn laud to enrol us stokers and seamen '• in the Naval Reserve. ! s Lieutenant It. G. Warke, of the [. Royal Artillery, who was sentenced n to death in connection with the death ]■ of Miss Jano Yates, of Liverpool, ' has been reprieved, y Bermx, December 12. 'e It is reported in Berlin that the a" Powers have agreed to occupy the Sumoa or Navigator group in the Pacific, Germany beginning with f Upolu. . y Bomhav, December 12, 11 The" Mad Mullah" who recently 'J beaded a small rising among the j border tribes on the SvV.it river has e been expelled from that locality aud i' bus Hod to Kositmit, ,i Washington', December 12, \ The American battleship Massaj clnisetts struck on an obstacle off j Governor Island, in New York harbour. Five of the compartments ' tilled with water. Repairs will bo 0 executed in New York. ' General Calixto Garcia, who took B a prominent part in conducting the - operations of tho Cuban insurgents 3 against Generals Blanco and Woyler, ' in tho rebellion, has died here from j pneumonia 1 London, December 11, 1 lteceutly Thomas Senior, a resiJ dent of Canning Town, Loudon, was committed for trial aud convicted for the manslaughter of his eightj months-old son, through neglecting j to call in a doctor. ■ Tho evidence at the inquest i showed that the parents were raetn--1 bers of the sect known as the " Pecu- , liar People," and did not believe in , doctors' treatment, but got the i elders of tho sect to lay their hands ' on and pray for the child. Tbey had bad twelve children, seven of i whom had died, and had not called , in a doctor to any of them, The Queen's Beuch Division of ' High Court of Justice has now de- ■ cided that though Senior was admittedly a kind father, he was ' rightly convicted of manslaughter, owiug to his ueglect to obtain medi- < cal aid, t