TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 June 1913, Page 2

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

[by electric tklkgkaph-copyiugiit] Ll'BU I'itKßM ASSOCIATION.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) OBITUARY. LONDON, June 27. Obituary—Reverend Sir James Cameron Lees. .FARM LABOURERS' STRIKE. A strike of farm hands lias occurred at Orinskirk district. Police are conveying farm produce to Liverpool. OUR FRIEND FROM FRANCE. The King and Royalties farcwelled President Poincare at Victoria Station. LABOUR'S TROUBLES. The National Executive of the Labour Party deny that it issued the manifesto concerning the seat of Leicester. Mr Masternian, in his speech at Leicester, declared that technically it was inaccurate to say the executive had issued the manifesto, but the Parliamentary Labour Party's committee- had decided to condemn Mr Hartley's candidature. Mr Snowdon. writing as a Labour leader, said that if the party had endorsed Mr Hartley's labour candidature for Leicester it would have jeopardised the seats of four-fifths of the present Labourites who were elected by the goodwill of the Liberals. The Labour leaders state that the decision not to fight for the. s:-at was a grave .-mistake. THE MADRAGETTES. .Mrs Mackworth, daughter of Mr Thomas Welsh, a coal owner, has been .arrested for placing acid in a Newport letter-box. THK CHURCH MILITANT. SALONIKA, June 27. A lorce of Russian, Greek and Bulgarian troops landed at Athos, where heretical monks occupy the Russian monastery hikl defy the authority of the church. 'RETREATING." Bulgarians retreating from Zletova. threw away their arms and knapsacks. The Servians pursued them toward Kotihana, Sandiansky, a Bulgarian band leader, is going to \ allona to organise Albanian bauds to operate « round Epirus. PATHETIC TREASURES. LONDON, June 27.

There is a pathetic display of Scott relics at the Earl's Court Exhibition, including a reproduction of Lieut. Campbell's igloo, the inner part ot ( 'apt. Scott's tent, of which the outer covering was used as a pall for the dead bodies, and a much thumbed sixpenny edition of Mary Johnston's "By Order of the Company." which was lound in Captain Scott's tent, lying open at the chapter headed: "AVe go out into the night."