British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 January 1914, Page 3

British and Foreign

] ' • MLECTIIIC TELEGKAPH —COFYBIGHT / (PEtt PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) I" * CANNOT PLAY CRICKET. I Capetown, January 26. * Marylebone lost 8 lor 505, and i declared.. Bird 200, Hearne 108 ' The Free State made 117. .t Barnes took 7 for 41. The Free States followed on and made 74. Barnes took 5 foi 38 and Douglas 4 for 34. \ ' (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) v . AT A STANDSTILL. London, January 20. >• Building operations—including - . the Commonwealth Building—are .practically at a standstill. , MEMORIAL SERVICE. pF/. / London, January 20. V The memorial service to Lord I Strathcona in Westminster Abbey was largely attended. Their MaP jesties, Queen Alexandra and the f Duke of Connaught were repre- \ > aented. ► ' Sir Thomas Mackenzie and the II Agents-General were also present. ■>:' x. The pall-hearers included the ' - Duke of Argyle, Lord Lunsdowne, ~ Earl of Aberdeen and the lit. p" Hon. Lewis Harcourt. I Queen Alexandra's wreath was I autographed "In memory of the Ijji." Empire's benefactor." The Commonwealth Govemrneiit sent a wreath. After the Abbey ceremony the ■ procession moved across London, ■ - the body being interred at High--1 gute. I. THANKSGIVING. 1 A thanksgiving service was held I in St.Dunstan's in the East End. I It was conducted by liishop Harps mer, of Rochester, and Bishop ■ Thornton. The congregation I. - 150, mostly ladies. The p* ltev. C. E. Dowdney,, of South Australia, in a stirring sermon on ? the text "Righteousness exaltJ',,- eth a Nation" emphasized the fact that Australia was the only in|i stance of a nation founded without l| •; Woodshed. . He hoped Australia lead in civilizing and i Christianing the bad Old World. WATTLE DAY LEAGUE. I . The Wattle Day League's rei ception at the Metropole was ft largely attended. , I UNEMPLOYED INSURANCE I I NOT FOR STRIKERS. ■ The building strikers claimed IJ unemployment benefit under the H. Insurance Act on the ground that B they were diamissed after due noK tice. The authorities refused the ■ request because of the existence of l a trade disjpute. f. .It is estimated that 31,000 are idle in the building trades and 13,000 thousand coal porters and carmeii. The coal strikers are granting, permits to the hospitals, but refused them to the Salvation Army on the ground that ihe Army intended to sell the coal. SERIOUSLY ILL. f Lord Knutsford is seriously ill. UNSETTLED INDIA. I Notwithstanding press statements to the contrary the Commissioner of Police asserts that a criminal conspiracy among the better classes exists. Dacoits seriously wounded Higgins, a prominent planter at Chitl tagong. Higgins shot one of his k assailants dead. police are making determefforts to crush the terrors in 1 Eastern Bengali. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) THE BAYTIEN REVOLT. New York, Jan. 26. The revolt is growing throughout Hayti,. and all the northern i -jtfowns an- arming against the Government. The United States |: have despatched the armoured !, cruised Montana. f; President Creste is considering !'• his abdication, Senator Theodore ji, , . having proclaimed himself as re|r volution ary leader and provisionV .al president. | TWELVE MINtJTES LESS, I The American astronomers at Flagstaff, Arizona, claim to have L. • discovered that Mars has twelve ■t-"-' minutes less daylight than has jPI been previously calculated. Pro- | lessor Lowell thinks the discre|p'. jiancy is due to an error in the planet's accepted period of rotaI'" tion.