CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 August 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

9 [KLECTRIU TBI/KGIIAI'H—COFrRIOHT.I [I'BR PRKBB ASSOCIATION. | Uveeeived This Day Q. 6 Oa.in.) AUSTIIALiAN .\iLWS. This Day. A mass meeting ot tlie Tew (South Waleci Telephonists' Union passed a resolution to strike us the result ol theTLou. \V. Syeuce's eral) relusal to increase their wages, and compensate the men Tor nighb v.oik. The carrying out ot the resolution was left in the bauds ol the union executive. A shooting tragedy has occurred at Go*ford. Two brothers, fredeilck and 15ei i Huh", went out wallaby shooting. They separated and Uert saw what he thought to be a wallaby moving in the thick underbrush. He hred and wao horrilied to discover that he had shot his brother fatally. In the Assembly Mr G. Wade moved the adjournment of the ilou.se to call attrition to the necessity for further limiting the freedom ol persons ol German extraction. lie ijuoted a case wherein an officer ol German extraction only was prevented from goiny; to the trout by the united protest of the rank aaul file, who refused to serve with him. There was another case, where, although he had two sous with the troops, one as an ollieer and the other a doctor, the rather was strongly pro-German. The Hon. W. Holinan. in reply, warned members against hysterical attacks on Germans as Germans. Internment only was useful where it served a military purpose. The people's main duty was to defeat t)ie Germans in Inlanders, I'ranee and the Dardanelles. The motion was negatived. (Received This Day SJ.S a.m.) THE GOAL TiUDE DIFFICULTY. London, August jo. A thousand Welsh miners are sti'iJi. inn; as a protest against the tardy settlement. The Coal Trade Conciliation Beard failed to agree, and the sitting ended abruptly.