LATENT CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 May 1901, Page 4

LATENT CABLE NEWS.

(PBK PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYBIGHT.)

Company Swindlers.

London, Way 17,

Mr. A. C. Bailey, a mining speculator, was sentenced to five years, and Henry do SMinger to eighteen months imprisonment for fraud in connection with the Westrnlian Development Corporation and -übsidiiry ''ompatdes. The charge w is one of fliariiig bogus companies. The amount involved being over sixty thousand. Mrs M'Kinley's Illness. S*N Francisco, May 18. The M'Kinley's have reached here. Mrs M'Kmley has made a hopeful rally. Obituary. London, May 19. At Wiesbaden, the mother of Lord Rosebery. Eclipse of the Sun. Clouds partJy interfered with the observation of the eclipse of the sun at Sumatrn, but better results were obta.ined at Mauritus, where three contacts were observed. The corona was fainter but yellower >md more diffused than that of 1900. A Disastrous Fire. London, May 18. The fire in the Futuro printing works at Laurenzo Marquess spread to the treasury buildings, destroying the archives of Delagoa. The King's Birthday. London, May 18. It is now announced that there is to be no official celebration of the King's birthday on May 24th. The announcement that the law courts would be suspended on that date was a mistake, which arose owing to certain other official announcements. The King's Buck hounds / Lokdon, May 18. The King's buck-hound 3, for which no provision was made in the Civil List, have been presented to Lord Chesham, (commanding the Imperial Yeomanry), and the officers in the Cape Colony.