MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

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MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

♦ C. A. Matthews, former Deputy-Trea-surer of Ontario, was convicted for conspiracy in taking a secret ccirmiissioii. He was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. A despatch l'rom Mexico says that bandits entered the liome of C. D. Tod son. Canadian manager for tlie Mazapil Copper Company ab Zacatscas, and shot him dead. Over 100 employees have been thrown out cf work by Goodlet's fire in Sydney. The Ere brigade chief states that one of the hoses was deliberately cut in several places, greatly impeding fighting operations. The police are investigating. Count Zazzlo Szechenyi. Hungarian Minister to the United States, has been called to Budapest to explain the failure of his efforts to bar from the United States Countess Katherine Karolyi, wife of a former president of Hungary. Robert Caldwell, presiding at a dinner in the Countess's honour, said the Horthy Government tried to bar the Countess from England last year. In the lirst of a. series of lectures, the Countess explained she left the aristocratic class because it refused to sacrifice its egotism for the welfare of Hungary, and lacked sympathy with the common classes. She was equally opposed to Communism and Monarchism.