Additional Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 February 1913, Page 4

Additional Cables.

♦ — Lvy.NJj-j.N, rcununv i_'. j A sensation lias uccn saused iu ■Koine by tiie arrest ol two members ul a lam oi contractors lor complicity m iraiule in connection with thy election ol a new Palace ol justice there. An excess over the estimates is the point at issue, and it is alleged that die sum oi £1,'250,000 is involved. It is believed that the arrests form tlie prelude to a huge scandal. LONDON, February 12. Ciermau scientific societies are at tempting to elucidate the problem of the divining rod. Xlicbo bodies consider it a physical, not ia psychological phenomenon. Experiments that havo been made with the divining rod in Munich, for the purpose of locating ruptures in burst water pipes, have been attended with success. LONDON, February 12. A swallow that was caught in Natal last December has been recognised as one that was released in TTolborn, London, 19 months ago. Tliere is no doubt that it is the same bird, for it was specially ringed l , and thus easily identified. LONDON, February 12. A sensational suicide occurred at Monte Carlo yesterday, when Count (Tueiither ended his life by shooting himself. Mo was a member of a family that is celebrated in the military annals of Prussia. Dismissed from the army, as a result of his extravagant habit*, he made a profession of innrrving rich women, wlios dowries ho

would obtain and then squander. The count was divorced; no fewer that six times within fifteen years. LONDON, Feb. 12. The opening bull-fight of the season in Madrid was marked by a sensational encounter. The first bull turned into tho arena caught the matador, who was gored and so grievously wounded that a priest was obliged to administer Extreme Unction in the ring. LONDON, February 12. A gang that has been •working thr Spanish prisoner swindle, and whoso operations were of the most widespread character., has been arrestd in Madrid. The house in which the professional swindlers lived had some remarkable features. The place which was specially built for them, was provided with false doors find secret rooms, which were intended to baffle the police in the event of a raid. Upon making a search of tho premises the police discovered hundreds of letters, which were all replies to circulars that the gang was in tlio habit despatching broadcast daily." There was ample evidence that the business had" yielded handsome revenues. '•