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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 February 1913, Page 2

"By Independent."

Cabled News From Abroad. (Sydney Sun Special.) NEW YOlUv, January 24. A disaster that is believed to have involved serious loss of life is reported from M'lvinney, in Texas. A large business establishment that was crowded with shoppers suddenly collapsed, the wreckage afterwards catching lire. How many wcro buried in the ruins is not yet known, but it is reported tluit between fifty and sixty persons, mostly girls and women, are entombed. BEULIX, .1 an nary 27. The proprietors of one of the Berlin papers, the Tageblatt. arranged a dinner at the Hotel Adlon, at which it wis intended that the guests should have an opportunity of comparing Australian mutton -with the German article. Included among the company were Professor Bougert, of the Veterinary Academy. Ilerr Goltz. director of the abattoirs. two or throe prominent authors, and a leading member of the theatrical profession. When the joints were reached mutton was the only fare, and in order that the diners should not know 'heforehnncT the particulars brand with which they were being served, they were given plates containing mixed portions of the meat of hotli countries. TV guests afterwards unanimously declared that there was no difference in either taste or appearance between the newly slaughterd German mutton and the frozen article from Australia. LONDON, January 25. The St. Petersburg Academy of Science has bestowed a prize upon an erstwhile Nihilist. Lukaschewitch. for a book on organic life. Considerable interest attaches to the award, as Lukaschewitch was one of the men who were implicated in the assassination of Alexander TT. in 1881. His hook was written during the 20 yearn' imprisonment to which lie was condemned. The French Government has accepted plans of a remarkable Aerial machine designed by a captain of artillery. The invention ronsists of an immense metal biplane, the framework of which is covered with plates of nickel steel sufficiently thick to permit the machine's Approach to within 400 yards of a dirigible armed with quick-firing guns. Beports have been received of si heartless robbery of which some of the passengers rescued from the wreck of the British steamer Veronese. on the Portuguese coast, were tTie victims. Their baggage was pillaged, and everything in the shape of jewellery, abstracted. Several persons who are suspected of being implicated in the robberv have arrived in bngland and are being kept under surveillance by tho police. A sensational fire occurred on Thursday night at the tfrsuline Convent in Brentwood, Essex. Tho nuns, clothed' only in their night-dresses. I got all the children out of tho building safely, and then pluckily set about attacking the flames, which they finally subdued. The trial lias commenced in St. Petersburg of an army engineer who stands charged with the embezzlement of a large sum of money. He s alleged to have defrauded tho State of CIOO.OOO within a year, his method being to falsify tho Accounts by charging for the wages of a workman who did not exist.