British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 October 1913, Page 3

British and Foreign

[ELECTRIC TELI6RAPH, COPTJtIGJiT.] [I'ER I'ItESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) DUBLIN STRIKE.

London, October o.

Murphy, chairman of the Dublin Tramways, has accused Lallan's paper (flic Irish Worker) of inciting lo murder. He said (here had been more strikes since Larkiu's advent than in the whole industrial history of the city. La rid n, in giving evidence, heatedly described fhe conditions of lily in Dublin. lit! said that tlu.re, were twenty-one thousand families living in one-roomed tenements, and that Christ was not going crucified in Dublin by

tlu- masters any longer; if the men were forced back to work after a long and weary struggle the time yet would come when they would break their bonds and give back blow for blow.

MADRAGETTES. Suffragettes burned a large unoccupied residence at ILanipton-on-Thames. The damage is set down at £■•!()()(). Rachel Perce and Mary Richardson have been arrested. The latter has been released four limes, under the "Cat and Mouse Act," and has committed a further crime after each release. AERIAL ACCIDENTS. Paris, October ;j. M. Lavcrlochere, a military axiafor, has been killed at Cliauniont. Sergeant tlartard, while biplaning at Rlieims, capsized, and was killed. A passenger was seriously injured. (Received This Day, 9.-'io a.m.) A REPULSIVE STORY. London, October <). Three lads ambushed Jones, the escaped prisoner, near Ruthin prison. Jones was much enianciated, after live days' privation, but he attacked the lads with a pair of shears, refusing to surrender. The lads shot him in the legs and he died'in twenty minutes.

POSTAL M AT'i ERS. Tile Postal and Telegraphic National Committee, representing eighty thousand members, has resolved lo send a deputation to me Hon. Mr Asquith and Sir A. Samuel. Postmaster-General, to protect against the select committees report. They demand fifteen per cent, increases, lo meet the increased cost of living, and w:ii inaugurate a national campaign lo support their ■demands. DOUBLU SUICIDE.

Major (.'. Hamilton Murdoch and Phyllis J>oaks were found decapitated on the railway al Southend. The right hand of tin; man and the left hand of tlie woman wen 1 lied together. The Major was aged sixty-three, and was reci'iitly at a nursing homo where his wife had been living', paralysed and unable to walk, for eight, years. There lie niel Bonlcs. a probationer and an attractive girl ol' twenty-three. An intimacy «as noticed, and Hoaks was dismissed. The couple lived together until their money was exhausted, and then committed suicide. HAND LA 1»01' R TKOI'BLKS. Johannesburg, October o. The 'Trades Federation has agreed not to insist on their representatives attending the conference of niineowners, thereby removing (he final obstacle lo a confei ence. (ULL.ISiO.N AT SEA. Li io de Janeiro, October 0. A collision between a steamer and ;i military tug took place at night, in thick fog on a rough sea. It is officially stated that thirty-two were drowjied by the sinking of the tug.

THE INCOMPATIBLE. Berlin, October The Portugal Government lias protested against King Manuel's wife taking the title of Queen. DEN OP THIEVES. St. Petersburg, October 0. Thieves robbed a house at orehoudenst, in trans-Baikalia, of ten. thousand sterling. The police made a house-to-house search until they discovered a _ gang of robbers, who fired, killing three and wounding two police. One thief was killed and one arrested : the rest escaped. GOSSIP. Athens, October 5. The reported impending betrothal of Elizabeth of Koumania to the Cnnvn Prince oJ: Greece is denied.