LATE WIRES.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 29, 20 March 1906, Page 3

LATE WIRES.

—o-o — BRITISH POLITICS. •' A Pure Beer Bill, requiring publicans to supply beer containing 85 per cent of barley malt, was negatived in the House of Commons by 161 votes to 109, GENERAL. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, has declined a peerage. The Hon. W. P. Reeves, High Commissioner for New Zealand, has accepted two hundred navvy emigrants for New Zealand. He is willing to give a thousand domestic servants reduced passages regardless of the capital qualification. By a railway collision in Colorado forty people were killed. Hundreds of prisoners are being executed in Russia without trial. The Dowager Empress of China has contributed 100,000 taels to the Japanese famine fund / An earthquake at Kagi, in Japan, hundreds of the inhabitants There was a great sensation at Paeroa yesterday afternoon, when about half a hundred people who were in attendance at the Ohinemuri Jockey Club’s races were attacked with ptomaine poisoning. Among the eatables supplied at luncheon was potted tongue. It is believed that this was the cause of the poisoning Some 'of the cases were most serious, and it was feared that there would be loss of life The British steamer Agincourt, from Port Kembla to Hongkong with a cargo of 5700 tons of coal B tauck an unchartered rock, and became a total wreck.