Second Edition.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 July 1911, Page 3

Second Edition.

LATEST CABLEGRAMS. ♦- — — SHIPPING. [BV BLKOTRIC IKLKOKAI'U torVKIOUT ] LI'EH PI K«:> **.-'U,,« '"•* 1 MKLLGI'RNK. This Day. Sailed : .Man lk.i. A HANK'S PKONTS. .MKIWHAN'rf, Tiiis I>:iy. The half-yearly rc-j>;rt vf Die. Queensland National Hank shows a not profit of £K),'27">. - IN PERSIA.

TKHKRA-X, July 19. The new Cabinet which has been formed is of an active disposition. The national loaders Ircive hasten edi to assure the Government of their >heasrty support against the ex-Shah. The latter, it appears, left Odessa on a plea of taking a cure in France. Opinion in Teheran attributes his laiuling to collusion or gross carelessness on the part of the Russian ■authorities. Russia has been opposing Mr Ckiu:le Schuster's financial reform scheme, aancl Major ,Stones' appointment.

AN AIUCAN MASSACRE. CAPE TOWN, July 19. News firoin Livin.gsti)n'b states that the Okavango tribe in Ngauiiland m.assacred tho German District(Vmuonissioner's patrol, which incli!<k<l twt, wJiiito surgGoms, fourteen hlacJc police and •twenty couriers. The Conimissioner Oiimself escaped on tho only mule left. N'ganiiland is FJritis'h, but the frontier is not clearly defined.

COMMONWEALTH HIGH COM- - MTSSTONEB.

LONDON, July 19. Sir George Reid, Miss and Mr Reid are making satisfactory pi-v----gress <al"ter their motor vnv accident.

I'NDTAX PLAGUE. LONDON. July 19. In tho Hfloi.se of Camm'on.s, Mr 10. Montagu, Under-Secretary for hidiia, statocl that 650,690' dleaths occurred from, pin give .in Tndia cluriniw th© half yen r, of- wlnVh 21,453 were recorded in June,

PERSIAN TROURLES. TKJTERAN, July 15).. The ex-Shah has landed at Guineistepc, near Astrnbad, with half a dozen followers, but has secured the .support of tho Turcomans. The loyalty of 12,000 Hiikhtiiiri, in Teheran, towards the Mejliss is undoubted. AUCKLAND WOULD GROWL. SYDNICY, This Day. The Ac; in tho Hon.. -Mr Holman, is co'usidering a pnoposal by the Director of Immigration, who is now on a Government mission to tho United State's, to appoint a Commissioner h> represent New South \V<iles on th.o I'aciific Slope, and to establish :i new sLo-anier line to San hVaiu-isco with a view to developiiKMit of trad* , . He .suggests a. twenty-six days Aervie: , fortnightly from liOiidoii to Sydney, cutting out Auckland. The. est iniated subsidy would he- .t'20,000 per aiinniii. HIS MA.IKSTV., LONDON, July l<). Yesterday was observed in 'Efliinbiirgh as a' public holiday. Crowds witnessed tho pictiirescjiie procession from Holyrood to St. Gilo's Cathedral, where the King 'dedicated the Chapel of tii-e- Thistle. ' AN'Xllll LATINO CONSU-MPTION. LONDON*. July IS). The Rt. Hon. John Hums (President of the Local Government Board) opening a conference of the National Association for tho Prevention of Consumption, stated that tho disease, during the last dorado, had decreased nineteen po'i- cent, in England and Wales, and twenty per cent, in both Scotland and Trolaind-, and thirty per cent, in London. There were now two deaths in London compared with every three in Britain and five in Paris. Consumption and tuberculosis were a.

diminishing force and experts believed that th-eir nniviliilation ought to bo effected in twejity-iive veniN.

a gkr.max stony. BERLIN, July li). Tho Vossisclic Zeitung says t'.lmt a Japanese, major attacked l<> tlio German Jirtilloi'v reserve was qrrested on Hie para , !i> ground at liaminelburg. Bravairiii. at midnight- wibile examining a now tube for recoil field guns with a> dark lantern.

KTCAXC'O-SPAMSH FJUCTIOX. p.urrs. July is). The Spanish ambassador interviewed y\. Dβ Selves, the Kroneli Minister oi : Justice, and promised that if Spanish agents confirm the circumstances already reported of the French Consul's arrest at Alcazar. Spnin would admit it was unfair, and express regret and make uc!-(v.s!!'v prepa rat inns.