VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8002, 13 December 1905, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

THE LIEICIIAF: MASSACRE. PEKING, Flee. 11. A Buddhist' monk and lil other Chinamen have been arrested for complicity in the recent mission-arv murders at Lieuchau. (Mail news recently furnished us with details of the murders, which were brutal in the extreme.) LXHEL CASE." LOXIION', Dec. 12. Sir E. R. Russell, editor of the Liverpool Daily FVist, was acquittei at the assizes on a charge of libei by publishing -an article accusing , section of the Licensing Committee ol obstruction in the administration of the Act. A BARONETCY. LONDON", Bee. 12. Mr John Davison Mil-burn has been created a baronet, NAVAL. LONDON", Dec. 12. The Illawarra having -insufficient accommodation, arrangements have been made for the Port Jackson Jo take the Warspite Ixiys instead. MUSICAL. LONDON, Dec.. 12. In the Salvationist musical competition,'Mr Gore, of Melbourne, secured lirst'prize for a march, and Mr William Young, of New i Zealand, flvas third. CYCLING, ; MELUOUFINE, Dec. 12. R. Anist failed in his heat in the Australian wheel race, owing tft the i:'olFapse of a tyre. RABBITS. SYNEY, Dec. 12. Rabbits are rapidly increasing in the Western districts. On some statiens the stock'have been.eaten out. and lmvc had to be removed. A trapper on one holding caught fifty thousaml 'in three nights. It is stated (that millions are succumbing to ftoison and starvation.