STOP PRESS NEWS CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 April 1916, Page 3

STOP PRESS NEWS CABLEGRAMS

' , — , LIOHiJI'UIO TKLISQItAI'Il —COPXaiCHI.J id I Li'lill I'BESS ASSOOIATION.j y (lleueived This Day y.40 a.m.) [•_ n EAKGE PIKCHASE OE AUS--0 TKALIAN WHEAT, ir Melbourne, This Day. The All lies' Eood Commission has completed the purchase ol 2,960,000 bushels of wheat at a cost approximately of £740,000. KAK-LY CLOSING IN TASt MANIA. J. tlobart, This Day. The Liquor llelerendum resolved itself into a struggle between the" six o'clock and ten o'clock closing. The , former scored 42,713 votes and the ? latter 21,502, whilst those in favour 1 of closing at other hours totalled 3811, whereof only 520 favoured eleven , -o'clock. FIJIAN GERMAN FINED. Suva, April 5. Alfred Ivienzle, a German resident of Levuka, was fined £75 for having ; been" found with firearms m his possession ; BRITISH ATTACK OX THE TIGRIS : ' London, April 5. The High Commissioner reports - General Lake reports at 5 a.m. thv on the Ti-'ris a corps, a,Sacked aad carried the enemy's entrenched position ' at nnii-el-hanah. Operations are proreeding satisfactorily. I ACCIDENT TO SAILOR ON BOARD MARAiUA. Wellington, This Day. The Director of Base Records ha-s iLi.euvd cad)iod advice that a saaior named G. Mathiesoii on board the iiospital Ship Marama has his leg smashed and that the leg had been amputated. The unfortunate victim is reported to be doing well. Any person knowing the name and addre a of this man's next of kin is reqa&tr ed to notify the same to the Ba«e Roc I ords Office. Wellington. (