CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 March 1915, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

[electuic telegraph—copyright.]

Ll'BK I'UESS ASSOCIATION.]

SHIPPING. Newcastle, This Bay. Sailed—lnga. for "VVanganui. INDIA'S RELIEF FUND. Delhi, March 5. fhe total relief fund in India has reached ninety lakhs of rupees, exclusive of twenty-four lakhs from Madras and thirty-five lakhs from Bombay, equalling £'1,000,000. Ihe chiefs and noblemen continue t-o give donations and valuable gifts of every description for the relief and war funds, including the Nazim of Hyderabad. a hospital of fifty beds, the Nawab of Dmijana, 50 camels ; the Chief of Dharanipur. 1,000.0001bs of hay and the .Rajah of Bilaspar, the remission of the soldiers' land revenue. (Received This Day 9.30 a.m.) BAKERS FAVOUR DAY WORK. Sydney, This Day. Ihe bakers' ballot resulted in favour of daywork. A RAILWAY OCCIDENT. The laiuwoith express collided witn a railway tricycle near Ouriinbah, killing the ganger, o'llara, his son ind nephew. SEEVI AN RELIEF FUTND. Ihe editor of the 2ora, the organ of the Dalmatian Slavs in New Zealand, has written to the Hon. \V. Holman, commending the proposition to establi ;ti a Servian Relief Fund, expressing loyalty to Great Britain, and stating that certain Slavs, pro-Austrian, who a,e collecting money to assist Germany, ought to be interned. HOT 1 WEATHER AND FIRES. The dry weather and iieat resulted in a number of bush fires round the city. There is increasing oppresire liess. A CYCLONE. Adelaide, This Day. A cyclone in the Bathurst and Melville Islands damaged the mission station and wrecked a cutter. Six nrtives were drowned. SMALLPOX. Fremantle, This Day. The steamer Umhalla arrived with three Lascars suffering from smallpox. She has been quarantined. REPORT CONTRADICTED. Melbourne. Thsi Day. The military authorities in Egypt contradict the report that four Australian soldiers were killed by an accidenr while climbing the Pyramids.