British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 May 1914, Page 3

British and Foreign

ELECliiif TELEGJIAfH — COPYBIGHT.

[i'i-ll MUSS ASSUUUmON.I (iteceived This Day, 9 a.m.)

±ne .Lilyno xxun. A. Jjiiioil is tailing , tno jljoiu. cnanceiior s aiu;ii'uun lome laet mat one Aleivean, a niagioua-te. in An train, is a principal snurenoiuer in tne company noiiving .uune naroour, and uiso in tne company owning" the lconia, wnicn was uetained lor gunrunning. x'ne \\ naiiatane structure was not damaged." Vans, Jlay i. Joseph Ixelsinyer ana Antoinette .bonnier, iwo liounianians v\ ere arrested on a charge ol absconding irom i\ew lorK where ilmy were- enU'usLeil wiik iii»UU wunii oi jewellery. W orliing baliera ol : l'aria have resolved, on an early atrike ior the mil application oi a weeKiy day oi rest and overtime. Advices Irom iieriin announce ike non-renewai aiter lUii oi the annual permits enabling French residents Lo sojourn in AlsaceLK>rrain&. 'liiis is interpreted as showing the IStaithailer's intention to rid tho provinces of those considered undesirable politically. Washington, May 7. A bomb dropped irom a Consti. tutionaiist bipluno fell in tlie streets of Mazathan, killing four and wounding eight persona. The Federals and the Constitutionalists arc hgnting in the neighbourhood. The beiiegers artillery is superior und the shells are seriously damaging the buildings. Two British subjects were killed at the mines and seven Americans are missing from Gaudalajava. Their fate is unknown. The rebels have capturd Acaponeto and the garrison oi Tepie after heavy fighting. London ,May 7. The Duke of Argyll's body has arrived at the Abbey for to-mor-row's service which the King and Queen will attend. The funeral tiiices place in Scotland. Mr John Houfton (Liberal), Mi James Master (Labour) and Major Bowden (Unionist) are the- candidates for North East Derbyshire. A mob raided the- Unionist volunteer drillshed at Quigley's, Point Moville, Donegal, removed one hundred rifles, and broke them into fragments. Capetown, May 7. During the budget debate in the Assembly the IHght Hon. J. A. X. Morrimen, criticising the increase' in expenditure, recommended a earful, complete overhaul of Ihe tariff, and an abandonment of the preferential treatment of imports from Great Britain and Australia.