CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 May 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

[electric hlbgraph—copyright . j [per prem association.! (Received This Day 11.15 a.m.) THE DEATH OF VISCOUNT WENDOVER. Sydney, This Day. A private cable has been received of the death from wounds of Viscount Wentlover, the only son ot the Marquis of Lincolnshire, who, as Earl Carrington. formely was Governor of New South Wales. GERMANS DENOUNCE GERMAN MM 1 HODS. Many Germans have written to the papers denouncing the German war methods and some repudiating their nationality. ENEMY WORKERS BARRED. A stop-work meeting of the Coal Lumpers' Union decided not to wBTk with Germans, Austrians and Turks. SEVERE PENALTIES. Melbourne, This Day. The Bill restricting the hours for the sale of fiquor provides for severe penalties for drunkenness: a first offence is liable to fourteen days' mirpisonment, second one month's imprisonment, and' a third to a fine of £10 or three months' imprisonment, and any subsequent offence a fine of £30 or six months' imprisonment. (Women offenders may be sent to a reformatory. VERDICT OF MT'RDER. At the inquest into the death at Morrison's homestead, a verdict was returned that Mrs Morrison and her son were murdered wilfully tjy Daniel Mcintosh, who, while in a demented state, fired the house and then committed suicide