CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 June 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

[EI ECTRIC TELBGHAI-n— COPYRIGHT .j I.PKK PREBB ASaOCIATION.I MARTIAL LAW IN CKYLON. Colombo. Juno l>. Martial law has been proclaimed in Ceylon because of diftttirbances between Singalese unci others, which originated in holiday festivities at Kandy. The troops at Colombo wore called out and order restored. There 'wore no European casualties. BILLIARDS. London, Juno 0. Inniau 18,01M>; Stevenson 17,777. (Hcceived This Day 'J. 35 a.m.) AN OPEN VERDICT. Loudon, June f). At an enquiry into the deaths ot H. H. Stanhope and Constance Julia Brent, which took place in April, an open verdict was returned. (Stanhope, a bank clerk, and the woman Brent, the wife of the, manager of the New Zealand Sawmilling Company, were found dead- in a room at Hyde Tavk on April 24. Doctore _gave evidence that the deaths •were due to narcotic poisoning).