Second Edition TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1915, Page 3

Second Edition TELEGRAMS

[mi I'UESS ASSOCIATION.] WRECK OF THE STRATHCON'A. Auckland This Day The Superintendent ol the Pacilij Cable Board has received nous that tho whole crew of the Strathcona have been rescued. The vessel is a total wreck but a portion ot the cargo may be sal vaged.

MURDERS IN THE i£»AN«DS.

-News lias been received ol the minder of a coolie employed on a plantation in Samoa. The man had been at tacked with an axe and the body was ltorrioly mutilated. The autEor of The ci ime is unknown. News also has been received of another murder on July Bth by an Indian at Somabitla in the Fiji group. The vijtim was a girl about fifteen years of age. She was shot and the murder >r flien paraded the neighbourhood with a plentiful supply of ammunition. A party of police left Suva for the seen-j of the crime, and afterwards it w?s learned that the Indian had been shot. •FALL IN PRIOE~OF~FLOIJR AT DIuYEDLN Dunedm, This l)?y. Flour has been reduced by 10s \>r\ton and now is quoted at Dunediu at £lb' per ton. The local prbe for flour has thus been reduced by .'JO» a ton during the last two -weeks. r lhe price of bread for the 41b loaf will be reduced from lOd to 9jd. MEAT FOK THE "IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT. Wellington, This D->*. Op to and including >atard: ; last the following quantities of meat ba-e been purchased in New Zealand on tehalf of the Imperial Government .vliiou the inception of the scheme on t'.i* ilih 3?arch: 12-3,3(39 quarters of beef, <. 85,853 carcases of mutton; and I.j'nl'.1&7 carcases of lamb. The toted jiuitbasos amount to £2,1)13,121 Vh