Second Edition

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 January 1914, Page 2

Second Edition

British and Foreign. [pee, press association.] [blbctkic telegraph, copyright.) (deceived This Day, 9.55 a.m.) London, January 25. The llight Hon. (J. E. Hob-' house, speaking- at Bristol, declared that it was the wealthy people who were culling for increased, armaments, and hoped that they would not regret it if the ltiglit Hon. Lloyd George called upon them to pay a little more if an increase is decided upon. The Primrose League's Ulster refugee scheme has evoked a guar-' antee of- £15,000 in the eveiit of civil war, to provide hospitality to ten thousand women and children. Berlin, January 25. Philip Hohenlohe •Sc>'jUiiigfurst, the Kaisers haa secretly married Henrietta Gindra, an actress, and a Viennese tradesman's daughter. He intends asking the Bavarian Government to einoble the bride. Johannesburg, Jan. 2o (;? jg&? The Supreme Court has a rule nisi returnable on •J«Sth to Mr Cresswell, M.P., on '• tlie ground that the magistrate wrongly claimed to administer martial law when there was no riot o)' disturbance in Witwaterstrand. The magistrate acquitted the Executive , of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers on a charge of unlawful assembly on the ground that the term "enclosed space" did not apply,to riots. When the Zulus saw the burghers leaving Middleburg for the " Hand, emissaries were sent to Zululand, to report that the time was opportune for a revolt, as the whites wore warring against each other. The .emissaries were arrested befo# reaching Zululand. The evidence shows tKat they intended to murder the only whites remaining in the vicinity. . The Government sent a large patrol to Middleburg, warning the Villus that at the first signs of violence the offenders would be shot.