Second Edition TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1913, Page 3

Second Edition TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

1 fur ELF.CTKIC TELEGKAPH-COFYKTGHT7 [PBR PRESS ASSOCIATION J (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) THE VAGARIES OF KXIGuT. I.OXDON. .February 4. Hnusktt villagers are incenseQ owing to their having nwule a three weeks' indel a tigable search. Knight was a popu'ar cricketer, lootbaHer and boxer. Lately ho treated his wife violently and behaved (jueorly. On the 18th Janwarv he compelled his wife to a company him to .Bridlington. and Iroin there ho tramped six miles in mud and fog to a dangeroiN cliff. He told her he infende<l to disappear. Ho carefully prepared a scone. leaving his umbrella iind camera en tho cliff at I'lamsboroiigh. He then departed after instructing his wife to go to the nearest farmhouse and say she saw iiim fall over the cliff. His wite savs she was unaware of Knight's intentions. hut was simply' terrorised. She did not. know of his relations with a school teacher. BOMBAUDIXG ADRIANOPLE. SOFIA. February -I. The bombardment of Adrianople was resumed to-day. Part of tho town is reported to bo in flam®. BKXT(iLITKT) KNIGHT. LOX.DOX, February 1. The Yorkshire Post newspaper reports that the Rev. Mr ICnight sailed for Australia accompanied by female Sunday School teaclier. UNDKRWRITERS' LOSSES. 'Tho Haddon Hall, which loft tha Clyde for East London, was wrecked at Salona Bay, involving the underwriters in losses totalling £125,000. A BIG FIXE. The Football Association fined tlip Manchester City Club £500, owing to the spectators invading tho ground and causing tho abandonment of the Sunderland match. PRESENT AND FUTURE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 4 Clmferi Pasha recently sent a wireless message that ho would ho able to hold Adrianople for two or three months. Ho announces alio that directly the war is over ho will return to tho capital and settle accounts with Nazim's murderers. BERLIN. .February 4. The Cologne Gazette says the entire army at Chataldja is against the demands for the punishment of the murderers and Sheokit's retirement. SOFIA, February 4. A tremendous cannonade is proceeding at Adrianople. Tho first shells were iired four and seven minutes, respectively, after the expiry of the truce. It is expected tho fortress will be captured within u fortnight. PARIS, February 4. M. (Daneff says that Bulgaria has promised to demolish forts on tho frontiers, though tho fact that Rouniiania has hcen allowed £o fortify hers was proof that Bulgaria was without sinister designs. He offered Roumania cortain certain territory, but it was impossible to cedo Silistria. PEKING, February 4. The six great Powers have arranged a twenty-five million loan, at Riper cent., and a minimum of 961 China gives seven and a half per cent, for seven million treasury hills before April. CAPETOWN. 'February I. Obituary—Sir Gordon Sprigg, ExPremier of C"ape Colony. (Received Tin's Bay. 10.55 a.m) MOR.E ABOUT KNIGHT. LONDON, February 4. It is believed Knight and a schoolteacher sailed in the s.s. Ballarat, under the assumed names. THE TREVAXmX INQUEST. At tho Trevaniou inquest, Nurse Rice testified that Roc arranged with Or. iinities to take charge of Trevaniou at a fee of £1000 per annu.n. Dr. Baines told her ho would give evidence in favour of Hoe, to help him get money. Roe told Mrs Joyner that the family lawyers wanted" to get hold of witness, who, he said. «'as a woman fifty pounds would buy any day. FIRE AND PEPPER. A suffragette has been arrested for breaking seven largo shop windows in Holborn. Postal pillar boxes have been burnt in Northumberland Avenue. A large number of letters were destroyed. Margaret Morrison was fined £20, with the alternative of one month's imprisonment, for having thrown pepper at a con stable at Levon,