GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6114, 16 December 1898, Page 2

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

(Received December 15, ll.iO p.m) London, December 15.

A prisoner who had just been sentonced to ii year's imprisonment at Belfast, throw a largo slono at Chief Justice O'lirien's head, the missile narrowly missing him,

(Received December 15,10A0 p.m.) Stockholm, December 15.

King Oscar of Sweden has refused lo sanction a resolution recently passed by the Storthing in favour of adopting a separato Hag for Norway. London, December 15, Franco has allowed tho dato for tho ratification of theNigor Convention—to dotermino the various spheres of iulluenco in the region—to pass without ratifying it, (Received December 15,11.30 p.m.) Madrid, December 15. A crowd of women assembled in the streets of Granada and stoned tho great statue of Christopher Columbus, which stands in a central part of the city, shouting out while doing so that ho had been tho cause of all tho misfortunes of Spain. The Filipinos leaders consider that Spain ought to ransom the 10,000 prisoners held by them with the £20,000,000 to be received from America under the peaco treaty. America, however, is pledged to secure the releaso of tho captives,

Ta.matavk, December 15. Several deaths are occurring daily here from the bubonic plague. The European residents arc not attacked by the disease,

Loxnox, December 15. The trial of a foreigner named Schneider, charged with the murdei of a baker by roasting the unfortuimlo man to death in an oven, has coucluded. Tho prisouer was sen< tenced to death.

(Received December, IS, 9.25 a.m.) London, December 15. Senior has been sentenced to four months for manslaughter.