"By Independent."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 March 1913, Page 2

"By Independent."

Cablecl News From Abroad. (Sydney Sun Special.) LIKE THE J'EAOE OF HEAVEN*. ■NEW \ORK. March 17. ")ou may go home and get another taxi-cab and go out and kill somebody else," .said Judge I'oster at the General Sessions Court hero yesterday. The judge was indignant. Ho was addressing Leon Genard, a taxi-cab dinei, who had been charged with murder, and was acquitted. He was indicted for the murder of Mrs Mary Doth bridge, who Wia.s run over and killed in April last. The judge, addressing the acquitted man, added : "The jury have given you permission to do so. Turning to the jurymen, ho said: 'Trentlemen, you seems to think that a drunken chauffeur can recklessly drive through the streets and go unpunished. At least that is what ,vou sny by your verdict. But in this case, your state of mind in order to arrive at that verdict' can be best described as like the peace of heaven. it passeth all understanding." AUSTRALIA'S XAVY.

LONDON, March 17. 'J'lio battleship cruiser, H.ikl.A.S. Australia will said from England in June. The South African Government has requested that both the H.M.A.S. Australia and H.M.A.S. Sydney shall call at Capetown, and the Commonwealth authorities have agreed. The trials which the Australia has just undergone disclosed that, although her speed is greater than that of the New Zealand, it is attained on a smaller consumption of coal.