AUSTRALIAN CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 May 1912, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLEGRAMS

BY ILICT&IO TXLBCHAPH—COPTBIQHT. J (.ran fkkss association.] (Received This Day. 11.0 a.m.) MINING SHARES. SYDNEY, This Day. Thi' Smith UroktMi Hill miik; ha-> leclaivd a dividend of (j.s. LAIiOL'K TROI'ISLE. SYDX'EY, This Day. Master butchers have decided to •o-operate with the men in securing ■diort<T hours, thus obviating the threatened strike. SMALLPOX. POUT DARWIN. This Day. Tlie steamer Taiyiian arived from Hong Kong with a case of smallpox aboard,

KM PI \\ K DAY : AKCHDEACOX AXD NEWSPAI'IvR, SYDNEY, This Day. Preaching at a military service in Gonlhtirn Cathedral, Archdeacon Hartlett read an extract from a Sydney paper declaring that the spirit of the so-called 'Empire Day was absolutely intolerable to any Austra-

lian who had a spark of manhood in liirn, and that the-true Australian Empire Day eelehrator wan a sycophant. Archdeacon Hartlett hurled back the insulting words winch, he said, only made Australians more patriotic. He emphasised the protest by throwing the offending paper from the pulpit. PEARL FISHING COMMISSION 1 . SYDNEY, May 27. Fire members of the Federal Parliament are forming a Pearl Fishing Com mission.