LATE WIRES.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 29, 16 March 1906, Page 3

LATE WIRES.

BRITISH POLITICS, There was an ancrimonious debate in the House ot oommons, on the fiscal question, and tue ciosuie had to be applied. 7 1 Sir H. C. Bannermann nas declined tJ appoint, a committee to consider the question os reviving the franking of members correspondence. A Select; Parliamentary Committee has been appointed to consider matters of interest to the butter trade. The Basingstoke (Hampshire) Byelections resulted in the return oi Mr Salter, Unionist. ( A .cab containing Mr Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, upset, injuring him slightly, and preventing his attendance at the House o». Commons. GENERAL. The engineers assert that men are still alive in the remote galleries of the Courrieres mine, but falls in the roof impede the search. Quinlin was sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs Gregory, with a recommendation to mercy on the ground of his youth. Dr Palmer stared that rhe wounds were inflicted by one in a trenzieci condition, rather than by one who desired to kill. Quinlin gave evidence in an extraordinarily calm manner, and told how he committed the murder, without being in the least, distressed. Mr A. Hamilton, director of tlie . Colonial Museum, has returned from an expedition to a cave .ac Tahora, in the Poverty Bay district, where he found the remains of some fourteen moas, including three 01 the largest species of dinorms. A young man named George Hasset, aged 19, was arrested last night at Auckland on a chage of attempted murder of his father, an Imperial old age pensioner, i o years of age. It is alleged that during a quarrel between Hassett and his wife, the son rushed into the room and discharged a pistol at his father. The bullet entered the side of the head, just below the temple, and the father is now in the hospital, his condition being uncertain.