Second Edition British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 February 1914, Page 3

Second Edition British and Foreign.

1 . fELECTKIC TELEGKAPH, COPYRIGHT.J " L pjER I'HESS ASSOCIATION, j (Received This Day 9. 10 a.m.) AUSTRALIA'S NEW GOVER--2s Oil- GENERAL. London, February 19. Sir Ronald and Lady Munro Ferguson sail by tlie Otwo\ REFUSED. Paris, .February 19. The Government refused Prince • Victor Napoleon's offer of £400,000 for the poor of Pans in celebration of the birth of his son. ' ALLEGED BRIBERY. Berlin, February 19. Heir Lublski charged Her r Bueben with wholesale brib ry of the Prussian and Russian frontier officials in connection witu the white slave tralhc. Profits, are said to have amounted ro i'-jOOO a year.

DELUDED. Capetown, February 10. ; The Hon. Mr H. Burton, Minister of Native Affairs, d'ecir.reJ that the railwaymen were deluded and bamboozled by rascals. ' According to a secret code oi the Railwaymen's Society prepH arations were made to run the ■ trains and issue an ultimatum W against Lord Gladstone and the ' Government. (Received This Day 10 a.m.) AMERICAN MARCONIS. London, Jb'ebruary 19. Lord Lansdowne said there was never a more discreditable gam•H ble on the Stock Exchange than that connected with American Marconis. No' tribunal was more unsuitable for the investigations held than .the recent Commons' • committee. The Lords' commit/*tee will be small and will include W the Judicial Lords. It should (F • investigate the investment of £21,000 of party funds in railway stock while the Government i was seeking- to terminate the Welsh coal strike. 'More light , was desirable on the £70,000 subscribed to the party funds at Coronation time. Lord Crewe said the Government was not convinced that the committee would serve a useful purpose. It had no objection to the motion, but it was not prepared to take the responsibility of k appointing a committee. The motion was agreed to with- ( out a division. (Received This Day 10.55 a.m.) NOT FOR THE PUBLIC. London, February 19.

The jury found that Sir EdAvard Ward published the document in discharge of public duty, - but' that the contents .were not proper for the public to know. / "They awarded 4'2000 damages. (iie^iveJ Tkijj Day, 11.15 a.m.) i AN AVALANCHE. I New York, Feb. 11). 1 Au avalanche at Valdez, Alas- (. ka. swept down the Keystone canyon and caught prospector Borgia ud, his wife anil little son. were burier beneath thousp|pnd;s of tons of debris. f While enroute for the interior, i> Vhe United States telegraph sigi.. ifyii corps narrowly escaped a j< similar fiite. One man was bur- !;•■' butjf reveled in the nick of rV, 'xA .ivi.u-. iurer was dispatchetl, ; '>.!m '.[,. a. find any trace of [:. yh)^)> : [:-, <.;...Lll''UlL\lA.

Uf\ fX tropic;* J (luvvnj-our turned the j;' .-. ••S^α , •(.-) of Southern Lnlifornian ;.'■■■ ivtwua intu racing millstreams. jj ■ A-'he railroad ;i.in!" street traffic )^r at ;i standstill. »•■; Kigf.ht inches <>;' r:iin" full in \f v thirty Lours. fe-/ There is ton feet of water in the £;■'': of Santa Barbara, ami the Hsv? companies are employed ppnwnpiug out the basements of |4|lpdded buildings. |flr. f JL'here is'slight loss of life, and jipueavj' damage to the orange : An % autoniobile touring party caught, when a retaining Ijjpval]" collapsed releasing h've feet |||m, flood water. The car was lawny, and the occupants ppV»% refuge in trees on the road»■;*}s?•. until ropes thrown from a Bs*V% house saved them.