LATE WIRES.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 22, 27 February 1906, Page 3

LATE WIRES.

—o-o — GENERAL. HHHEe rebel natives beleagured the of Ixopo, in Natal, for a Five hundred persons of all 'Wges took refuge in the gaal, where Ihey nightly expected an attack. IColonel Mackenzie’s field force arrived and relieved the place. Johann Hoch, the “Chicago Bluebeard, has been hanged. He maintained his innocense throughout, declaring that his wives died natural deaths. The French Chamber of Depuf ties, by 501 votes to 5, passed a Workmen’s Pensions Bill. Queen’s Alexandra’s unemployed fund no amounts to £150,000. The Church Association has petitioned King Edward to refuse his assent to the marriage of his neice, Princess Ena of Battenburg, to King Alfonso of Spain. Advices from Russia state that during the month ended February 7th there were 10,000 arrests and 1400 summary executions. Seven-ty-eight Russian newspapers were suspended, and fifty-nine editors arrested. A fire at Taira, in Japan, destroyed six hundred honses. Thirty seven, persons were incinerated. The body of a young man named Hans Buckingham, drowned a week ago, was discovered on the beach at' Wanganui yesterday morning. / Sinclair McDonald, four years of age, the son of a resident of Roslyn, was drowned in a water hole in Kaikorai. The lad was playing with his brother on the edge of the hole, which was about sft deep, when he fell in. His mother made desperate efforts to save him, but it was not till further assistance arrived that the body was recovered, 'T life being extinct. •'<*The Premier gives an emphatic contradiction to the statement that he has acquired, or is going to acquire, 1000 acres at Te Mahanga, Hawke’s Bay, with the intention of HnSHnnMuer will be in Auckland welcome the New

Zealand football team, which arrives that day from ’Frisco. The Native Minister intends to meet the Urewera natives next month to make arrangements for a systematic prospect of that country for gold. The New Zealand Alliance is protesting against the granting of club charters at Hastings, Feihlmg and Masterton, in each of which places there had been a majority vote at the recent elections in favor of no-license. The total value of the Methodist Church properties in New Zealand is estimated to be £343,177, on which there is an indebtedness of 13 per cent.