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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 December 1916, Page 3

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(Austral n-New Zealand Cable Service; (Received at Levin 1 p.m.) A MANDAMUS -REQUIRED. Sydney, This Day. Owing to the small number of applicants. the 'Rhodes Schoteshijp Selection Committee is not making j awards this year. PRICE OF PAPERS. The County Press Association is considering tli© need for increasing the price ol country dailies from Id to ljd per copy. COAL AN!D WAGES. I lie coal proprietors have decided to confer with the men on Friday in respect to the question of increased wages. THE POLITICAL CRISIS. London, Dec. 6. The Central News Agency reports that the King has called all his Ministers to a conference at Buckingham Palace. Sir Edward Carson is telegraphing Belfast denying the report as to his attitude regarding the Irish settlement scheme. He s'lys : "Ulstevmen know my views and my! unabated loyalty to them. NEW ' ZEAL AMD iMEDICQ HONORED. General Milnes, in n despatch from Salonika, mentions Lieut-Colonel M'Gn.vin, of the New Zealand Medical Corps. FRAXiCE DISTURBED. Paris, December G. I lie journal Humanite says that the problem Mr Lloyd George set before Great Britain will also be put before France; if not the question of dictatorship, then that of organization and rapid action and will power. BRITISH AVIATORS. Amsterdam, Dec. G. Three British aviators bombed the railway junctions and military works near Brussels on- Tuesday. | THE GEORGIAN' SUCCESS. A German correspondent says that the victory at Argesu was only possible because the Rumanians had not | time in which to destroy the bridges. | The Ninth German Army was inces- j santly attacking the rearguards and marching straight upon the oil field at Prahova. If the valley had been reached the Germans would be on the line of retreat of the Second (Rumanian Army which held up the enemy for two months. THE ENEMY'S NEXT TASK. Sofia messages declare that after Bucharest, the next task for the iGermanic powers is the capture of Vaona, which is in Italian occupation, ind then to join hands with Greece ind Bulgaria in introducing a Mass -.evy Bill on German lines.