Second Edition

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1913, Page 3

Second Edition

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD. 6 rur ELECTRIC xELEonAi'n-copyiuauxJ [?HR PREBB ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) TWO AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. LONDON, Jan. 20. Tlii! warship Melbourno, al'tor final successful tests, readied Plymouth, having experienced a rough passage. The Australian Commonwealth Hank's London branch has been opened. MAD BUmUGETTES. LO~XDON, .January 20. 'file police are taking elaborate precautions against lawlessness following on the Franchise debate. Members of the Cabinet are closely mm riled. Some of their lives have 'lieon threatened. Members on the front benches hold divided opinion regarding Sir .Edward 0 rev's amendment to omit the word "male," and the vote will be left to the House absolutely. WIRELIuSS. M. Marconi lias written to the Government requesting it to release him from his contract, owing to expense incurred through tho indefinite delay preceding ratification of the contract, and to serious detriment owing to erroneous statements professedly pased on evidence give'i before the special conimitteo being reproduced in newspapers without Tiis company having an opportunity of refuting it. He adds that the company's officers will be prepared, when the investigations have concluded, to construct, stations on such terms as may l)e agreed upon. BERLIN, January 20. A motor car, with four ofGcors. collided with a carriage at Leipzig. Three wore killed and the fourth seriously injured. It is reported that tho chauffeur committed snicido. WHAT COULD ULSTER DO? LONDON, January 19, , Mr C. V. Trevolyn, at Chester, said that no Tory bluster and no j mob brutality would deter the Government. It was quite likely that rioting would occur at Belfast owing to the deliberate encouragement vf violence by men in high places, but nobody expected tho pitiful passions; which Sir Edward Carson was trying to arouse would load to civil war. If they did. what could a handful of civilians do against the British Army?