LATE WIRES.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 6, 12 January 1906, Page 3

LATE WIRES.

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Sir H. C. Bannerman, addressing four thousand persons at Liverpool, declared that the Liberals, having -we public sense on their side, would win, although all the organised forces of privilege were against them. He described as baseless Mr Balfour’s charges that the Liberals intended to weaken the defences of the Empire, though it was the Government’s duty to check the torrent of military expenditure. Mr Balfour stated, in the course of a speech at Manchester, that Home Bule would be absolutely dertructive of the United Kingdom, t absolutely ruinous to Ireland, and would shatter the Empire. He was skilfully heckled regarding Chinese labour. The late Premier admitted that he favoured woman suffrage. Boohooing and shouting for Mr Chamberlain prevented Sir H. C. Bannerman from speaking at Shrewsbury. Mr Lyttelton was refused a hearing at Leamington. RUSSIAN AEEAIRS. are all powerful in Courland (one of the Baltic provinces) . They have annexed Crown lands and forests, and instituted « Draconian punishment of offenders against property. Marriages are celebrated under the red flag, and Socialists preach from the pulpits of the churches. Extraordinary precautions are being taken at Czarskoe Selo, the Czar’s residence near the capital. The authorities have been warned that the Czar’s life will be attempted whenever he leaves the palace. Mutinous troops along the Siberian f&ilway are electing their own officers. Insurgents and reservists are • masters of the chief towns. “ GENERAL. 5 By an explosion in a mine at InDpiakita, Japan, a hundred and one aSgers were incinerated. A landslip at Haverstraw, in the M state of New York, precipitated e i<rht houses into a clay pit a *hunh dred feet deep. Sixteen persons were killed, including members of the leading families of the place. The debris took fire, and the victims were incinerated. A fall of earth in the Vale (Cool'Vgardie) mine killed.. three men— Milroy, O’Brien and Christenson. A Japanese, for murdering a . colonist was guillotined in the street akNoumea before the gaol,

in the presence of several hundred people. Just before the Monowai, from Wellington, reached the Sydney heads, a saloon passenger, named Albertß.Morgan, died, after several fits. Some British farmers arriving to takeup land at Myall Creek, New South Wales, displayed great apprehensions regarding the blacks and bushrangers.