LATE WIRES.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 9, 26 January 1906, Page 3

LATE WIRES.

—O-0 — BRITISH ELECTIONS. The number of members elected to the new House of Commons is 529, 313 being Liberals. Mr Michael Davitt, in a remarkable letter to the Freeman’s Journal rejoices at the approaching secularisation of English Catholic schools. Cornish miners badly mauled Mr Thorne, Socialist M.P. for West Ham South (elected last week), who was attempting to support the

Socialist candidate for Camborne division of Cornwall. GENERAL. John Frederick Crook, aged 19 years, serving a three years’ sentence for theft, escaped from the prison works at Mount Cook barracks yesterday. At Timaru, David Gib-mu, who took a gun with him to shoot some birds and rabbits, tripped over some logs, and the charge, exploding, entered his stomach. The injured man died two hours later. He was single, and about 42 years of age. A thick brown haze in the atmosphere in 'Canterbury yesterday, veiling the mountains, lias been attributed to smoke from Australian bush fires.

[Some smoke captured in a Waipuk man’s whiskers has been duly analysed, and positively asserted to belong to Australia.] Barbara McLellan, a widow, aged 57, of Notrth-east Valley, Dunedin, died suddenly, the cause oi death apparently being heart disease.

An independent survey of the damage to the Christchurch Exhibition building proves that its extent was very much exaggerate<l. The stability of the structure is in no way imperilled. The sum of £704 is estimated as required to make good the damage. Mr Massey, leader of the Opposition, is visiting Canterbury. He will be present at an entertainment to be given at Rangiora in honour of Mr Moore, the defeated candidate for Kaiapoi. Mr Massey says that in the North the Opposition are not at all disheartened at the result of the general election. lie himself refused to accept a purse of sovereigns from his constituents, but he is to attend a function to be given in his honour in a week or two at Pukekohe for which 1500 invitations have been issued.