pliccs robbed itihe building. The robbers secured only non-nego-tiable bonds to the value of £2OOO, Al\ were arrested later. _ o LATE SPORTING, SYDNEY CUP AND DONCASTEK,, HANDICAP. (Received January §, 8.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 3. Nominations for the Doneaster Handicap total 119, including Lady Medallist, Mary Seaton, Chief Looliiel, Sharpshooter and Wild West. For the Sydney Cup, there ere 89 nominations, including Lady ,Med'dlist, Maxwell, Vice-Admiral and Miss Mischief. LOCAL OPTION. POLL TAKEN IN ONTARIO. (Received January 3, 10.35 a.m.) OTAWA, January 2. As a result of a local option vote throughout Ontario, a few villages went "dry." In seventy municipalities polls were taken. Thirty-five rejected the proposal, fifteen carried it, and twenty failed to give a requisite majority. TYRANNICAL TURKS. JOURNALISTS BEATEN. (Received January 3, 9 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 2. j Ismail Faik Bey, a journalist at J Bastinadoed (for articles criticising the overbearing attitude of the com- j mittee of Union of Progress), and his father, editor of the Angora paper, were arrested for publishing an open letter in protest, and were whipped until they became senseless. Similar acts of tyranny tare reported an other parts of Turkey.
FIRE AT MURRUMBURRAH.
SIX SHOPS DESTROYED.
(Received January 3, 8.15 a.m.)
SYDNEY, January 3. , A' fire at .Murrumburrah destroyed eix shops in the business centre.
RATEABLE PROPERTY. (Received January 3, 8.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January 3. Rateable property in Melbourne for tSie past year increased by £4, 770,000. CHINESE REBELLION. SUPPORTING THE IMPERIALISTS (Received January 3, 11.20 a.m.) PEKIN, January 2. The Princes in Southern Mongolia have resolved to support t&e Imperialists, against itihe Revolutionaries. Tfiey will declare tiheir independence if a republic is established. Yuan r ' Slhih'-Kai visited the palace to obtain from the Dowager 3,000,000 taels. . There are many indications that the northern troops are anxious to resume hostilities. The revolutionaries wfao attacked Hankau were strangers from a distance, and were not.aware of the ■armistice. Their attack was unsuccessful.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10517, 4 January 1912, Page 7
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