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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 December 1912, Page 2

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BOY'S HORRIBLE DEATH. | LONDON, December 14. A distressing tragedy is reported from Belgium. While playing on the beach a boy was caught in tho quicksand. For seven hours the little fellow struggled in a frantic effort to release himself from his terrible situation. His brother whs near at hand and witnessed Tiis struggles, but was unable to render any help. Tho lad continued to sink deeper in the sand, until he was finally drowned by the incoming tide. ARE BRITISHERS DEGENERATING. Sir James Barr, president of the British Medical delivered an address before tho Eugenics Education Society yesterday. He said that practical eugenics were a matter of urgent and primary importance, but tho country wns at present governed by mawkish sentimentality and gross ignorance, and tlie subject had never been held in high opinion by many legislators. That breed seemed to be degenerated into a lot of garrulous fools who wero dear at any price, let alone £400 a year. He looked upon such fools as mere cumberers of -the ground, and obstacles in the path of progress, obstacles which should be removed if Great Britain wanted to matin tain her position among the nations. Great Britain would have to raise a healthy, intelligent and self-reliant race. Nowadays the submerged tenth was adding to the population a race of cowardly hooligans. The unfit were the best cared for, and there was no encouragement to the healthy man to have a large lamily. THE LASH AND THE PROCURER The Humanitarian League has presented a memorial to Mr Asquith, expressing deep regret at the section of tho White Slave Bill that provides for tho flogging of offenders. Among those who signed the memorial were Mr BramweTl Booth, Mr Bernard Shaw, Mr G. K. Chesterton, and Mr H. G. Wells. SETTLED ON A ROOF. An airman, who was crossing over London in an. aeroplane, was forced to descend. He alighted on the roof of a bouse, to the consternation of the occupants, but beyond smashing the chimneys, 110 damage was clone. The pilot completed his journey by train. BIG BILLIARDS. M. Inman beat E. Diggle last night by 635 in a game of 18,000 up. Diggle received 1250. There was an exciting finish, Inman scoring 1229 in the last two hours and a quarter. FRENCH ANTI-MILITARISTS. The French Dreadnought, .Jean Bart, was examined yesterday before undergoing trials, and it was found that some of tho plates Bad been perforated, Sabotage by antimilitarists is suspected. COSTLY GREYHOUNDS. At a sale of greyhounds yesterday, 19 brought 000 guineas. The top price was 100 guineas. ANGLICAN AND DISSENTER. Canon Hensley Honson, of Westminster, who has been appointed Dean of Durham, delivering a farewell sermon, said that if Anglicans and Nonconformists bad a better basis of fellowship they would hear Ices talk of the disestablishment of the Church of England. It was wrong to mako Anglican isolation a religious principle. The Dean emphasised ■ thai fraternity must essentially exist between Anglicans and Nonconformists. The preachei rejoiced that so many home churchmen were turning their attentions to the colonies. ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA. The Chilian Government lias completed all the arrangements for the Andean railway from Buenos Aires to Santiago along the route of the Maipo Valley. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS The charges of bad conduct made against certain members of the last Australian cricket eleven by the manager of the team, Mr Crouch, occasioned immense surprise in England, as this is the first that has been heard of the trouble. It was known that considerable dissension existed among the Australians, and that three of them had refused to make tho trip to South Africa if certain men were included in the team.