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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1913, Page 3

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BT BLBOXRIO T«LIOEAPH--COPTRIOHt.J fFMt I'KKBS ABBOCIATIQN.jJ (Received Tl> : * 10.*10 a m.; MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. SYDNEY, This Day. William Patrick Cranston has been ;ommitted for trial on a charge o* nansiaughter of .Jas. Murphy, livilcncc was given to the effect that Jiey quarrelled in a cafe, and Cranituii struck Murphy, who fell and (truck his head on the pavement. AN 01' EN YEUDiCT. An inquest iwis held 011 tlie body jf William McMillan, whose bach v.is recovered in the KarcelaU J reek, near the Queensland border. [Evidence showed that McMillan was i member of a party of tour, the hive others returning from Kareeah the day after the party left, and "eported that McMillan was niissng. Death resulted from a broken leek before the body entered the rater. There was no evidence to iliow how the fatality had occurred. The jury returned an open verdnt. COMMITTED FOR TIUAIT"" William James tv,as committed for rial for shooting and murdering ialph Albert Chambers. Evidence vas given of a row in a uavvas' •amp at Marulan, and deceased >vn-> •hot while letting a vehicle through i fence. James was hoard to say hat he would shoot the first man •:>ming near Cockatoo Island. DOCKYARD D ISM ISSALS. The dockyard dismissals were 70, lot 250. as previously stated. HIGH COURT JUDGE. MELBOURNE, This Day Kivmk Duffy succeeds the late .VI r VCannor, Judge of the High Court QUEENSLAND E'LOODS. 13RISHANE, This flay. "Tnpre.scdi'nted floods occurred at dareeba. being .six* feet higher t!n:i ny ])revious recorded. When the iver broke. tin* banks wore covered or half a mile with houses. wh'Vh iad bven swept away. The pumpng station at the State works was vrocked, and tlio Courthouse at rii'ilohra flooded.