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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10530, 17 January 1912, Page 7

ing in the street, when Tuillddge accosted them, and struggle between the two men ensued, and two shots were fired. Holt lias been arrested. He declares tlteiit Tullidge -attacked him, and lie shot liim an self-defence. CULLERA OUTRAGE. CUQUETO REPRIEVED. (Received January 16, 8.30 a.m.) MADRID, Jaiuuary 15. Owing to ii general strike being threaten ed at the Cabinet has resigned after _ submitting to the King a decree ; eprieving Cuquoto, the seventh Oull era rioter, w(ho was fovuic guilty on three counts, including brutally murdering Signor Succa, a Judge, and 'his clerk, Ganalejas. _ It is stated that the King previously favoured leniency, but the Cabinei: made a political misltako in not reprieving Ouqueito witch the others who were charged.

STRIKE RIOT. MOB RUSH A MILL. J (Received January 16, 12.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, January, 15. A mob of textile workers, numbering three thousand, attempted to rush the mills at Laurence in a mass during a strike. . They smashed the doors and win-, clows. The. militia was summoned and charged the mob with bayonets. Fifty persons, many of whom were women, were injured. . ' / / • The police'were unable to cope with the outbreak. Many of them were in- ( jured by stone-throwing. HORRIBLE TORTURES. THE TABRIZ MASSACRES. (Received January T6, 9.50 a.m.) ' ST. PETERSBURG, January' 15. Forty Russians were killed at Tabriz," but only seventeen bodies h«w:o been recovered. ■>. 'sl&ny were banded after «n- ---' during horrible torturer Authenticated phowSgr&phs show that abominable mutilation has been perpetrated. THE KING AND QUEEN. VISIT TO INDIA. (Received January 16, 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 16. The Daily Telegraph's London correspondent says thai it is generally believed that the King went to India against tlhe strongly-expressed wishes of bis Ministers, woo considered he was running a. risk in view of the cases of sedition. , „ Tlie King and Queen made'light ol the danger, believing that none of their Indian subjects would attempt a Royal assassination. The King holds the opinion that the Empire can be much strengthened by occasional visits of the reigning monarch to all its greater parts, ?iid it is understood thiait he pressed iuus view on his advisers. The correspondent adds that he lias on very high 'authority thsiifc the King and Queen wisTlTo re-visit Australia, Canada, and South Africa at an early diate, and the tour has already boon under considera-tinn.