CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 September 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

! oUiC'l'lUU XiiLEUUAi'H —COI'I'UUiHT. i [l-Elt I'HESa ASSOCIATION. ) (Received This Day S.o a.m.) A U Slit ALIxVN NJiAYS. .Sydney, lhis Day. John Thomas Tucker, who was charged with murdering his wife and her brother at Stanniore last June, has been seinonecd to death. The fl.oll. W. iloluian has been u r .- vised by the President 01 the Press i Liie World, that it l.ua accepted lite Governments invilatim | lor the next conference to meat- n: .Sydney in IUIB. The Sontay, the lirst French in.ri siea.mor for Australia, under the iuw time-table, will reach Sydney via (Singapore, JJatavia and -Noumea. Melbourne, This Day. A parcel of £3000 ■worth of war l.'aii bonds ietched £101 per hundred. Sydney, Tlrs Ihy. In the Assembly {several peti f .i; is ter and against early-elosing iia/e bet i: presented. Mr Brown moved tlnit in consequence of the moral and social ills ai.smj, from the sale of intoxicants the liars should be closed much earlier. .Mr Stuart Robertson said any man ought to be able to get as much liquor as he required between a.30 in the morning, and Cin the evening. l'he Turks were a non-drinking race and were more humane fighters than the beer-drinking Germans. He moved •the addition of the 'words: "not later than six o'clock." Captain Tomb's said that the temperance rel'eromors were in a minority and the agitation was due to hysteria rather than reasonable common-sense. Mr "Cocks moved a further amendment providing for nine o'clock closing ilr Brown's motion was carried without division and the motion for six o'clock closing was negatived by 51 to 20. and the nine o'clock proposition by 38 to 33.