Second Edition. TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1913, Page 3

Second Edition. TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

[BT KLECTRtC TELEGRAPH -COPYRIGHT] [PUR PRIBS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 9.-3U a.m.) London, August IT. Lord Lincolnshire has announced his retirement I'roin public life. Mr T. ilarvey, Labour M.l\ l'or Leeds, and Tice-i-'residenl of the Miners I'ederution, is supporting Mr Keyoll in his election campaign. Mr Harvey declares lie does not care two pins what the .Federation and Labour Party is doing. It is reported that a Bolton corporation labourer, named llnnstall, lias inherited £~00,000 from his father-in-law; West well, who was engaged in the West Australian pearl iisheries.

Miss A. Kenny hiis "•one fo 1 ,, ranee. It is alleged thai Mrs I'ankhurst intends resuming Iho campaign in ihc Autumn. An Orange hall lias been burned at "Ballyhoe, Fermanagh. Tho newspaper Scot man iuierpreis Sir J. Simon's latest move as indicative of the Government maturing , plans for a general election. The Greek Army demobilises next week. The slow withdrawal of Rouniauias embarrasses the Bulgarians, bindering re-establishment of food transportation. Two thousand cases of cholera are reported among Roumanians. (■Received 9.55 a.m.) London August IT. Owing- to Colonel Cody's death and Mr liiulloy's retirement, only two competitors remain in the' Daily Mail's sea-phutt flight around G resit Brihiin for a prize of £5000. This will determine whether British-made engines are equal io the task. Hawker, on a Sopwith biplane, accompanied by Ksiuper, an Australian mechanic, left Southampton and reached Yarmouth in four and a half hours. He averaged a mile a minute. McLean, bis rival, was on a Short biplane of 100 horse power with Green fixed cylindrical engines. (Received, 11 a.m.) Vienna, This Day. It is proposed to raise the annual recruit levy to 200,000. Of the additional 40,000 a total of 20,000 are to be used for the army and two thousand for the navy: the remainder in the laiidwellr. There also will bo an increase of cavalry and artillery. Newspapers report that the Malissori are dissatisfied with the Albanian - Montenegrin boundary fixed by the Ambassadors' Conference. The loaders have notified Yice-Admiral TJurney, who commanded the blockading expedition at Antivari, that unless their demands are conceded by the 20th Augiisi they will declare war against Montenegro.