LATE WIRES.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 9, 23 January 1906, Page 3

LATE WIRES.

BRITISH ELECTIONS. £ The state of parties is as follows: -—Liberals 253, Labour 41, Nationalists 77, Unionists 114. The Observer estimates that 473,433 votes in Great Britain were cast for Mr Chamberlainism, 1,008,079 for Mr Balfour, 2,087,705 for Ereetrade, including 409,025 for Labour, as against 77,286 Labour votes cast in 1900. GENERAL. A billiard match in London, Mitchell v. Weiss, of 16,000 up, was drawn. Mitchell scored 15,882, and Weiss 15,832, the latter including breaks of 429' and 439. James Frederick Willetts, a music pirate, has been sentenced in London to nine months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to infringe copyrights. Willett’s confederates received minor sentences. The wife of Mr Brown, settler, of Cambridge, had both her legs and her right arm broken through a fall from a waggon. An inquest was held at Ashton, Ashburton, on the eight-months-old child of Mr John Hampton, farmer. The evidence showed that while the mother was bathing the child she fainted, and when she recovered consciousness she found the child drowned in the bath. A verdict of accidently drowned was returned. At Invercargill, the magistrate, Mr McCarthy, has cancelled the old-age pension of John Dewar, iw'ho had been convicted of drunken-

ness. The pension was granted in December.