CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 August 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

« [ELKCTUIc •;o» , V«IC.|fT ; (Aii.slralia-X'ew Zealand Cable Service). (Ri'i'i'ivcd This Dav 10.il) a.m.) the .urßiwoßs r.\ thk \k\y nun- i R,[f)KS. Sydney. Thin Day, Details of the massacre of the Bridges family at Tantu (in the Now Hebrides) show that tlio family. of whom the oldest. ehild wa.s aKc;l twelve years, was at supper when attacked. The bodies of Bridges mid the I'mu children were battered almost beyond roengni"tion. Tlio (il'th rhild was carried into the lui'di. The indication- are 11:t the native* first Icilled Bribes. His native wife and other child were absent at the time of the tragedy, wlii.'h is .stated to ho the result of a lone: period of weak administration of native matters. VITAL STATrsTrOS 'Melbourne. This "Dav. Tlit» excess of birth- over »!•• st!i ; in tile Commonwealth for the past epiu tor was 18,713 compared 0':<! '' r the corresponding pei'nd of the previous year. Tlio tofal decrease of population, due to excess of emigration oror immi;;rat'oTl, Has