CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 June 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

(.HXE'JTRIf) TBIiKOIIAI'H—tOPraiOHT. [PBR PRIaS ASSOCIATION.] (liteceivedi This Cay 11.3-j a.m.) U.S. DEMOCRATS. « s Washington, Juno l-i. -Renter states that the Democratic Gotrventiun opened at .St. Louis with the usual speeches. there is ©very expcctatioTT that Messrs Wilson and Marshall will be re-nommat'ed for *lio Presidency and Vice-l'residoiiey by acclamation. President Wilson, during a patriotic address at H ashing ton, rebuked the disloyalty of a small minority of citizens of loreign extraction (he undoubteTy' was referring to Uerinan sympathisers;, saying that at this moment they were trying to "levy a sort ot political blackmail under threat - of vengeance at the polls." He believed; he voiced one ot the issues ot the campaign which would be incorporated in the democratic platform. MAIfOONI'S NEW INVENTION. London, Jug© 14. , At the Marcofli Company's meeting, Mr. Isaacs said that £>ignor Marconi in tie near future wouM introduce a simple installation to Da worked from a ship's bridge, aid put «n end to au dangers of collision in darkness or in fog. . &HAOK EXPEDITION. The Hiffli Commit ,»er for i\«sw Zealand reports (Loudon, 14th Juno, 12.15 a.m.) The Admiralty C-omnnt-}ee of Slmokletou Keliet Expedition report that the ship .Discovery i« to be equipped at once lor a two years' voyage. A small! is to be landed in the winter to Search Ilia coasts by sledge in the autumn *ndi spring. The ship ie to return in V-1917-18. The committee's recommendations had- been approved .by the Government when Sir E. Shackleton arrived at tho Falkland Islands. Since then the committee had ladvised at once the rescue of 32 men left behind. Sir ii. Shackleton will do this in a vesel tent by Uruguay. The rescue of the men left by the ship Aurora will bo effected with the co-operation of Australia ind New Zealand.