LATE WIRES.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 11, 30 January 1906, Page 3

LATE WIRES.

—O-0 — BRITISH ELECTIONS. -9- ■ The number of members elected to the British Parliament is as "follows: —Liberals 375, Unionists 146, Nationalists 83, Labourites 50. No Unionist candidate has been elected for Wales. A thousand female operatives in - - the Blackburn district have withdrawn from their trade union as a protest against the employment of the union’s funds for political pur- ■ poses. Mr Higuins, Nationalist candi- - date for Galway North, who was returned at the bead of the poll, died from heart failure. Dr Jameson, Premier of Cape Colony, in a speech, declared that if the Government adhered to the democratic basis of one vote one value all would be well. It was

impossible for the Government to go back on that. general. Dr Ford Robertson, of Edinburgh, claims to have discovered the bacillus of general paralysis of the insane. Revolutionaries at Penza (Russia) have informed Al. Prosorunski, chief of the gendarmeries there, that M. Livovsky was assassinated by mistake, and the error will shortly be rectified by the assassination of M. Prosoronski. A hurricane caused a large amount of damage in the Cairns district (nearly a thousand miles north west of Brisbane). Alany buildings were unrooted and otherwise damaged. A maniac at St. Louis, U.S.A., is still at large, after wounding fourteen women with a double-edged knife. Speaking during his visit to the Pahiatua district, the Premier said that in the fori hconing session uf Parliament proposals would be submitted for a remission of taxation on the necessaries of life. At Wellington Court yesterday, William Clark and Edward Barren., proprietors of an eating house in the city, known as the Strand Cafe, were each fined £25 and costs, or a months imprisonment, for selling beer without a license. The Premier was banqueted at Pongaroa, and he addressed, a large public meeting for two hours. A vote of t hanks to the Premier and of confidence in the Government was carried unanimously. Air Beddon returned to Pahiatua and left by special train for Featherston at night. A drowning fatality occurred at Upper Matakiki (Nelson) onEriday evening, when two young men named Arthur Thornton and Joshua Scholefield lost their lives.