GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 238, 29 June 1915, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALASIAN WOUNDED IN ENGLAND. (Reed 12,45 a.m.) LONDON, June £B. Australian and New Zealand wounded to the number of 330 have landed at Plymouth. All except one were able to walk. SENSATIONAL MURDER. A-BARMAID ACQUITTED. • . ! (Reed 9.35 a.m.) - ' • \ LONDON, June '2B. A sensational verdict has been re- • turned in a barmaid murder cake. Alice Wheatley was acquitted o 3 a. charge of shooting Lieut. Woollen’s wife on the 23rd March. Wheatley gave evidence that because she would no longer shield him. .She admitted having possession, of the re--1 Volver, but Lftsut. Woo Chen. (look it away. ! The judge, in summing up, considered that Lieut. Wcottons evidence wa« discredited. Wheatley’s possession of the revolver rested solely on hr.tes-* timony. 1 ... ■ A NEW ZEALAND HERO. “A RE WE DOWN-HEA E TED ' ’ ’ i . ! HIS LAST WORDS. . (Rcc. 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A wounded Australian relates the landing of the gallant four hundred at the Dardanelles. He says; Everybody got mixed and all officers were killed. The men did not know how to proceed, when a New Zealander with previous experience of war shouted, ‘‘l'll take command! I’ll get you back!” A bullet hit him in the mouth. The New • Zealander signalled for paper and pen- } cil, and as he ’lay dying he managed to 4 (scrawl, ‘‘Arc we down-hearted?” The other men cried “No!” Then the brave chap fell back dead. 3 Of the four hundred only thirty came through unscathed. Eighty wounded returned. 1 HOTELS EARLY CLOSING. (Reed 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The new law, closing hotels at 9.30 at night comes into operation on the 6th July. 1 AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. *] 1 (Reed 9.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 2s. 1 Dardanelles casualties: Wounded: Captain.Morne and Lieut. ! Ritter. 3 THE WAR LOAN. T —— • ’•/ 3 . (Reed 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. Fisher has received from: the Imperial Treasury details of conditions of th 3 British War Loan, with a re- ’ quest to publish them throughout the' Cciamoiiwealth. , .■ a. ,'