"By Independent."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1913, Page 3

"By Independent."

Cabled News From Abroad. (Sydney Sun Special.) LIGHTHOUSE TRIALS. LONDON, January p 3. Tho fearful storms that Jiavo boon raging around England tor sonic time have given the lighthouse-keepers a tiring experience. The officials iu charge of the light on the Scilly Islands have just been relieved aft or (seven weeks of monotony. ICONOCLASTS. One of tho Wycliffo preachers smashed images of the Madonna and the Child at a Sheffield High Chimb, knocked off the Madonna's crown and the Child's head. Ho niterwards sent a telegram to the Archbishop of York protesting against tho practice of permitting idolatrous images to he erected iu churches *n his See. The Wycliffe preachers are a selfconstituted hody of men who object to High Church practices. BRTAN BOR.U AS A OKI?MAN. The threats made by many Ulstermen that they will become German subjects if Home Rule is established is taken quite seriously by Dr. Roth, the well-known German genealogist. Dr. Roth dedans that the reigning Duke of Anhalt. being a direct descendant of Hi ia 11 Born. should assert his claims to th elrish throne. Brian Horn was killed by the Danes at the battle of Clont-arf. i.'i company with 200 or 300 other Irish kings. A number aro I to have escaped. LONDON. January 27. A Brussels telegram reports tin' Prince 11.cry. Queen Wilhelmimrs Conso.t. is i!i at a mountain resort in Western Germany. NAZIM PASHA'S CHILDREN. A telegram from Cairi to the H >rlin Lokal Anzeigcr says that at the request of the 'lance of tho Lit.* Nazim Pasha's daughter, Lord Kitchener has asked the British Ambassador at Constantinople to take the children of the murdered Turkish military leader under his protection APACHE CRIME. A young Apache at Marseilles, emulating the crime of Bonnot and his motor bandits, shot his companion dead, and then barricaded himscdf in a loft, keeping tho police at hav with his revolver. Eventually the attackers got on to a roof, and through the skylight riddled the miscreant with bullets. (Bonnot's motor bandits terrorise:! Paris and the surrounding districts for many months. They travelled about in automobiles, and committed all sorts of crimes, and they have been imitated since in other parts of France and in London and New York). BAD LUCK .FOLLOWS GOOD. The Nottingham man who. after having been paralysed from the •waist downwards for five years, suddenly recovered the use of his legs, was the victim of a serious accident to-day. He was ascending a staircase at his home, when be stumbled and fell backwards down a flight of several steps. He was unconscnns when picked up, and has not yet regained his senses. (This is the man who related the other day the remarkable circiinstances in which he suddenly found that he could walk. His story was that he awoke one morning last week, when something suggested to him that lie should try to walk. He made the attempt and was astonished to find that he could get about with ease).