Second Edition. To=Day's Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 February 1911, Page 3

Second Edition. To=Day's Cables.

ACCUSATION'S BY SOCIALISTS. [Ur ELECTItIO TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT. J LI'KK I'llhSM ASHUUIAI'ION.J BERLIN', February 115. During a debate on the navy, the Socialists accused the Krupp family of making £3,3-10,000 clear profit during the last three years, squeezing trie whole district like a lemon. They alleged tliat forty per cent, of the "workmen's dwellings at Esson were in a disgraceful condition. Admiral Von Tirpitz, in his reply, said there was hardly a linn that ■had done so much as the Krupps in improving the workers' housing and social conditions. LOXDON, February IG. Tho King will review the Boy Scouts at Windsor on the. 4th of July. AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS'S KINDNESS. LONT.ON, February, 1(5. Miss Dolly Castles, the Australian actress, ulcerated her birthday by entertaining ;.'()() Boy Scouts at Drury Lane Theatre. IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT STATEMENT. LONDON, February 10. In the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, informed) Mr Burgoyne, Unionist member for Kensington, that there were 22 dry and floating Dreadnought docks built and building in Great Britain, thirteen of them belonging to the Admiralty. Out of a total of fourteen .available for use in the North Sea and the English Channel, seven belonged to the Admiralty and there wore five private docks outside the United Kingdom to be added. Germany's total' was eleven, whereof eight were in the North Sea. EX-SOLDIERS AS EMIGRANTS. LONDON, February 16. The Rt. Hon. R. B. Haldane (Minister of War), replying, in the House of Commons, to a question whether the Government would give facilities to enable ex-soldiers with suitable- experience to emigrate to Australia, said that the Government was unable to extend the present commutation of pensioiiSj and suggested that the colonies should forego requiring the deposit. LONDON, February 16. Mr Alters, British CommissionerGeneral at the Argentine Exhibition, says (that the section has cost £14,000 and the exhibitors have booked orders to the value of £2,500,000, chiefly machinery and) agricultural implements. One firm has secured orders for £100,000 worth of goods.