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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43323, 9 May 1908, Page 2

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THE WORLD'S HEWS

A BARGUE WRECKED. SYDNEY, Yesterday- . The Underwriters’ Association have been advised that the barque Italia was wrecked at Valpariso, bound from Newcastle to Iquique, coal laden. THE LOCK-OUT. SHIPBUILDING CONFER- t LONDON, Yesterday. The Shipbuilding Conference, after several hours’ discussion, adjourfec! till Monday. . j THE NAVY LEAGUE. LONDON, Yesterday. Earl Dudley has accepted the & Vice-Presidency of the Navy League. PREMIERS’ CONFERENCE. MELBOURNE, Yesterday. The Premiers lengthily discussed the financial proposals. The speeches generally were opposed to the acceptance. The debate was adjourned without decision. : THE AMERICAN FLEET. ARRIVAL IN SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, .Yesterday. Admiral Evans’ fleet arrived _at San Francisco. Upwards bf a million welcomed them, and the enthusiasm was intense. / VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, YeeterdayA citizens meeting at the Town Hall, the Lord Mayor presiding, decided to co-operate with tho Commonwealth and States Governments in arranging a fitting welcome to the American fleet. RISING IN INDIA. - -jfr CALCUTTA, Yesterday. Some contingents who attacked Khasbar came from Tizin, 35 miles from Kabul. - • General Wilcocks to Peshawar to-day, and are retiring on Alemasja and Pbshawa. Two mountain guns remain at Landikotal. OPIUM DENS. TERMINATION OF LICENSES LONDON, Yesterday. In the House of Commons Mr Johnson’s resolution, urging the Government to take steps specially to terminate the license of opium dens | in Crown colonies was accepted by the Government and unanimously agreed to. . ' Sir E. Grey emphasized the kind achieved in China in a short time. AMERICAN TRAGEDY. WHOLESALE MURDERS. , WOMEN ROBBED AND KILLED. NEW YORK, Yesterday. After a fire on a farm at Laporte, Indiana, four bodies, believed to be those of the occupier, Mrs Belle Guinness and her children, were discovered incinerated. A farm hUfid named Lamphere, charged with murdering the family, has since been arrested. Nine additional bodies were found roughly buried near, all being mur*' dered. The police now believe that Mrs Guinness escaped to Chicago after burning a strange woman and the children. The woman was decapitated to prevent identification. The other corpses are believed to include applicants lured to the-house in response to Mrs Guinness’ matrimonal agency advertisement, the applicants being robbed and murdered and insurance money collected. Mrs Guinness’ first husband is believed to have been poisoned, and there are indications that the second was murdered with a butcher’s cleaver.

IRISH UNDER-SECRETARY.;

SIR J. B. DOUGHERTY APPOINTED. LONDON, Yesterday. Mr A. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has informed Mr John ' Brownlee Lonsdale, M.P.. ~ secretary of the Irish Unionist that Sir J. B. Dougherty succeeds Sir Anthony Patrick Mac Donnell, as Under-Secretary to the Lord-Lieu-tenant of Ireland. . INDIAN RUNS AMOK. KILLS THE OVERSEER. SUVA, Yesterday. '-P| An Indian ran amok at Navau and shot the overseer, Mr Pender, and a coolie. He also wounded Mrs Swann, Messrs Orabbe, and Tait. -jt An armed party shot the culprit. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.

LONDON, Yesterday. A. W. Gore beat A. Wilding, the New Zealander, in the covered courts singles championship 4—6, B—6. 6—0,8-6. M Wilding and Miss Smith beat Ritchie and Miss Green in-the combined doubles championship 6 —l* I—6, 6—3,