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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 March 1914, Page 3

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K I.EC TlllC TELEU KAl'lI —COPYRIGHT [>ER TPsESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 10.00 a.m.)

SHIPPING

Sydney, I'his Day. „ Sailed the Star of Victoria, for I New Zealand. SHIPPING. Sydney, This Day. Arrived. Patrol from Wellington. 1 GOOD RAINS. .From Friday till 0 o'clock last night -J7!J points of rain fell in Sydney. This is 7 points above the average for March. It is still raining and the country districts is greatly benefited. AGAINST STUAP HANGERS. The tramway men afce commencing a crusade against strap hanging. They contend that it interferes with the proper discharge of their duties. The steamer Ma Kanrtto brings PKSTLESS NATIVES. news that the natives in the New Hebrides are very restless, especially those on Malekula Island, where, early in the month, seven native missionary teachers were killed and eaten by a tribe known as the Bi> (J am bus. The natives also raided and burnt a store kepi by an Englishman named Earrell, who, with his wife, escaped to Walla Tsland. (Received This Day, 10.00 a.m.) ANOTHER DKATH. Lilian Heaver, another member <>i: the Heaver familv, has col la psed ' :I ' s ;1 i'« , K«R "f the K X(I t (T ,li s - She was partially paralysed. INDUSTRIAL ACTION. Melbourne. This Day. Kendall, organiser of the Amalgamated Society ol Engineers, whose extradition it is reported the Smith African Government intends io apply For, addressed a meeting in the Socialists' Hall. He said it had by industrial action that they can hope, in South Africa at tiny rale, to come into their own shortly. They had the workers educated up to Ihe intermittent strike: also to sabotage. Personally he agreed with later indoslrial leaders that a strike is real I v war. and

(•very possible means must be employed. He was not adverse !o murdering a "scab." He hoped (he Govern men! .would not extradite him .as he had conformed lo x (he law so far. He did not know if he would always conform to it, because he wtis a rebel at heart, and in all probability he would become a rebel in (his country, bu( Ihe Government must leave him alone until he violated the laws.