THE SHOOTING OF SKEFINGTON

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2862, 29 August 1916, Page 6

THE SHOOTING OF SKEFINGTON

SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE Australian-New Zealand Cablo Association. London, August 27. There was a sensation at the Skeffington inquiry. Lieutenant Alexander Wilson, on main guard duty at Portobello Barracks, testified that Dobbin informed him that Captain Colthurst "anted him to shoot three men. Dobbin told witness to ask the adjutant if the order should be carried out. Witness cycled, across the barrack yards, received the adjutant's message, and returned, and had just finished delivering the message .when shots rang out. Sergeant Aldridge tostified that the three nxen wero shot together. There was only one volley. l

ARCTIC EXPEDITION WRECKED

SURVIVORS RESCUED. ' Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. New York, August 27. The' schooner Great Bear, carrying Borden Lane's Arotio expedition, was totally wrecked in the Beliring Sea on August 10. The crow landed at St. Matthew Island and subsisted on salved provisions till yesterday, when they were rescued by ■ a coastguard cutter. C.

OBITUARY

ARCHBISHOP SPALDING. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. New York, August 26. Archbishop Spalding, is dead. [Archbishop Join Lancaster Spalding, 8.A., of St. Mary's, Maryland, was born at Lebanon, Kentucky, in 1840. He was the author of several works, including "Religious Mission of tho Irish People," "Education'and the Higher Life," "America, and other Poems," "God and the Soul," "Religion, Agnosticism, and Education," "Socialism and Labour," "The\Spalding Year Book," and "Religion and Art and 'Other Essays," 1905.]