To-Days News of the World.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1913, Page 3

To-Days News of the World.

■ cr K!.;'< ruir tki.kguap::- coi'vhkmit) [['Kit ntKSB ASSOCIATE '• (Ikveived This Day, 8.40 a.m.) 1 ADMIRALTY MATTERS. LGXDO'X, February The Admiralty is omitting fioni the navy list the number of guns carrie.l by each ship. This information is nu.\ r-:r.-;idered confidential. FIVE DAY WEEK. Xorth Wales miners voted he number of 5281) against and 2825 in favour of a five days' week. T!!I<: S U FIJI A GETTES. Grace Burbridge, who sustained burn-, recently when endeavouring to place pnosphorus in a letter box. was, at Marylebone, bound over for six months. She promised not to repent the offence. The Magistrate described her a poor, deluJw dupe. Sylvia Panklnu'tst was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. She declared she intended to carry on tbe hunger .strike. ISATTLISSHIP XEW ZFALAXD. . Ad mi ia Is Meux and Heath rece'v cd i\ing George on the battleslvp Xew Zealand. Others present : n eluded: Sir. T. Mackenzie. Sir •Joseph Ward, Hon. Jas Allen, Hon Winston Churchill. Mr llarcourt. Mr Jellicoe and Prince Louis, of Battenburg. and the King, devoted over an hour to a general tour, and was particularly interested in the barbette where the crew operated twelve-inch guns. He was also uterestod in the gyroscope compass, and greatly amused at tbe - tions of the gi-nvoin. which somewhat resemhlr l a lady's b nuloir. Before leaving the King was photographed amidst the Xew Zealand's officers. ffe expressed to Commander Halsey his gratification -ind , wished tbe officers an enjoyable v>ynge. AIJIUAXOPIiK ROM BARDI.T). SOFIA. February 5. All sides of the Adrianoplc fortress are being bombarded to-day. COXSTAXTIXOPLE, Feb. 5. It is officially stated that l ; " 30 shells have fallen in Adrianople. Fight inhabitants were killed and ten wounded. Fifty-three houses are on fire. The bombardment continues. CAPE POLITICS. CAPETOWX. February 5. The Xationalists. as a party, decided to support General Botha. (HecivedThis Day. 11.5 a.m.j SMACKED HIS FACE. LONDON, February 5. The police gave evidence that Sylvia Paiikhurst hurried with an ,',ikpot to the police station, and with an inky hand smacked Superintendent Well's face. BUILDING COLLAPSES. A number of persons climbed on to the roof of a building to watch the (Sunderland-Manchester cup match at Sunderland. The building collapsed and fifteen persons were removed to the hospital, many sustaining broken limbs and several j suffereing from concussion. THE WHERISA BOUTS OF b KNIGHT. i The Evening News says Knight ; and Miss Grimes are aboard the l Port Lincoln, having obtained assisted passages from the Victorian y Government. Knight has in bis I possession £375. A girl friend of t Miss Grimes's alleges that she was t aware of a schcmo for Knight's disappearance. Miss Grimes wrote to e the girl stating that she and Knight )' were going to Australia. Knight det elarcd that his married life was misv erable.