Second Edition. British and Foriegn

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 March 1914, Page 3

Second Edition. British and Foriegn

-- ft — l*« PJUSSB AIIOMATION.J | ZJjICTMIC TELBQKAPH, COI'IJIIGHT. I TALLOW MARKET. (Received. U. 45 a.m.) London, March 11. "At the tallow sales 1194 casks were offered and 617 sold. Tinprice is unchanged. AERO I 1 AT ALT Y. Captain U. R. Allen ad Lieutenant Burroughs were killed while flying over Salisbury Plain. MISSION All Y MI7RDER ED. Peking, March 10. Ungands sacked Hohokou.. They murdered Froyland, a Norwegian missionary, and seriously wounded another missionary. (Received This Day 1T.25 am ) QUESTIONS ANSWERED'. London, March 11. The lit. Hon. L. Harcourt, in reply to Mr R. H. Barran, M.P., said that he had carefully considered the proposed guide to dominions conditions and demonstrators would give short lectures ai file Imperial Institute showing the products, and openings for advances in colonial life. He did not yoi {.-■.<] justified in sanctioning cn}* ndihiro of the Tnsti-lule>-fe.'fls -vl;ich were limited.

Colonel &oel".y, in reply in Air A. Ilondersoii, M.P., said that be had issued iio particular insfruc-

tions lo the South African Government to destroy any secret documents. Mr 10. T. ,loh 11, M.P., for Denbighshire introduced a bill giving , Home Rulcv to Wales. The bill provides for a single chamber and women's franchise. The Rt. Hon. C. H. Hobhouse, in replj- to a question, said that, lie was unable' to propose penny postage to France. BIPLANE FALLS. A biplane, one of the oldest, and regarded years ago as the finest in the world, was flying over Salisbury Plain when the rudder bar broke and it fell 300 feet. GALLERIES CLOSED. The State apartments at Windsor and the Guildhall gallery are closed owing to the suffragettes. COMMITTED. Starchfield and Gould have been committed for trial. READ TWICE. Lord Newton's Betting Inducement Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords. A CYCLONK March. 11. A cyclone in Madagascar on March 2nd caused several wrecks and a tidal wave drowned 1G of the inhabitant*.

SETTLED. Cettinge, March 11. The Metaka incident has been settled. Both Austria and Montenegro have withdrawn their troops. A SPY'S PUNISHMENT. Vienna, March 11. Jacobs, an Austrian lieutenant, has been sentenced to IT years' rigorous imprisonment for espionage during the mobilization of troops at the height of the Balkan War.

AFTER THE STRIKE. Capetown, March 11. The Rand municipalities are organising relief for the distressed. The aftermath of the. strike is that two thousand miners are unemployed and two thousand have emigrated. CHINESE BRIGANDS. Pekin, March 11. Brigands at Hohokou sacked the British and American factories and seized seven hundred rounds of rifle ammunition. They impressed 2000 cooEes to remove, the loot. TROTBLES OF A "BOSS." New York, March 11. The National Democratic Club alleging that ''Boss" Murphy is behind in his club subscription, dismissed him from membership together with a dozen othcj prominent Murphyilcs. T4iis action "has been taken as the outcome of the Sulzer case, and will probably lead to Murphy's loss of political power. THE F1 vEE OF ( r R OHES. London, March 11. The Free Churches' Council at Norwich pasSed a resolution favouring a world conference to secure 'a* closer union of the Free Churches, also insisting on a more rigid Sunday observance, and condemning the War Office's encouragement of Sunday rifle practice. In a discussion of the relations between the. Church and child, several speakers declared Flint the results of Protestant methods in dealing with and giving religious training to the young compared unfavourably with the Roman Catholic methods. !

WARLIKE QFA'KERESS. Gibbs. a Quakeress, was fined £10 or two months' imprisonment for dog-whipping a policeman. FIET'Y WOMEN. After Mrs Paukhurt's incarceration in Hoi lowa y gaol, the suffragettes, using petrol, fired the woodwork of Parkhouse at Edgbnston. The flames caused only slight damage. EM IGR A NTS SCARCE. The difficult y of securing emigrants is emphasised by the Canadian hooking for 1914 being 08 per cent less than for the same period during 191 -{.