Australian Cables

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 October 1913, Page 3

Australian Cables

[per press association.] [El, EI'TR I(' TE.I,E(i R A I'll, C'OPYllKillT. | (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) CHURCH UNION. Sydney, This Day. The Congregational Union committee's report on church union states that in consequence of the Methodists failing to re-appoint their section of the committee, the Presbyterians resolved that tit present, they would proceed no further with the matter, but were prepared to discuss' the future with the Congregationalists. Negotiations, therefore, were likely to be re-opencd shortly. The Congregational Union appointed a committee to confer with the Methodists and .Presbyterians. SPRINTING. •T. F. Bradley ran seventy-five yards in seven and two-fifths seconds oft' scratch. It was the finest amateur effort ever seen in New South Wales. LIBEL. The Hon. Mr Griffith, N.S.W. Minister for Public Works, is suing the Bathurst Times for a thousand pounds damages for libel for publishing a sheet which is alleged to have been supplied by Mr G. 'Wade. Leader of the Opposition, showing protographs of certain signatures said to be in Mr Griffith's handwriting, headed "A study in handwriting: the Metflow Land and Mr Wade's charges against the Minister.''' A JOCKEY'S DEATH. Wilfred Crewe, a stud groom, employed at Trailce station, was girthing a mare, when she gripped him by the windpipe with her teeth. Crewe died. LAWN TENNIS. Regarding the opinions cabled on October Ist, from Fremantle, Rice states that, he never said Australians were defeated owing to bad courts. What he said was that the courts were soft and favoured the Americans with their volleying, as against the Australians ground work. He admits that tliey met better men. AFTER TWO YEARS. The Melbourne motor fishing smack Orme, which left Cunningham (Gippsland) two years ago, nnd has been unheard of sincc, was washed ashore near Cape Conran. There were five aboard when she sailed.