VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10662, 18 June 1912, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

JV TRANS-ATLANTIC LINE*?* SAILS'. PRANCE.

{Received Last Night, 9.40 o'clock.)

PARIS, Juine 17. TJie Tirane-Atilaniip lamer La Province laas sailed. M. Delcaese, Minister for Marine, has jirovidied the vessel with 200 bluejackets as naval stokers. BIG LIBEL ACTION. AGAINST JOHN NORTON. A BISHOIP STIGMATISED. ('Rsceiiwfid Last Night„ 9.10 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, Jupe 17. An' atetion by Airchbishop Clarke against Mir John the editor of tlie newspaper "Truth," claiming £SOOO damages, has commenced. It is alleged that .the label Was contained in. an aiVticJe dealing witih the case of Can tin Nsush, in which the Arehibishqp- was 1 .stigmatised as a "ai'ighitimain., a pestilent parasite, an inquisitor, ahd an Anglican anarchist," and ' was ohaClenged to meet .the waiter in a court of law* CHARGE OF HOUSEBREAKING. RECENT AIRRIVAL FROM NEW ZEALAND. % . (Received Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.) SYDNEY,, June 17. Norman Edwin Kee'ls, described as ia- recent ainrival from New has been remanded on a charge of house-breaking. He was found in possession of a iweek-eaidens' cottage at Mianly. . 'Ho was' diased aind captured. A loaded reycivelr. was found in his | possessions -J ' . ' ' , ] ABATTOIRS BOARD. CONTROL OF MEAT INDUSTRY. (Received Last .Night, 9.10 o'lcflo'clc.)' SYDNEY, June 17. The Premior- (t<b© Hon!. J. S. T. McG<owen) has approved of the appointmemit oif (a Meat Abattoirs Board to entirely control the meat kfdustry. . A MURDERER EXECUTED. DEATH INSTANTANEOUS. (Received Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.) SYDNEY, Jiune 17. W'iVliam E'aQ;, wiho was tforfn'd guilty. of murdriring his wife, "was exe- \ cuited to-day. ■' I Death wiae instan^aneoius.

(Rill wvlll be ,remembered as tlie mailt who anriv'ed front England some weeks ago in mmpainy wiith his wife. The coupfe wea>& working on. a staitionJ at Bioiglhara, in l New .. South Wales, and while l there the; rerriaini& ctf- Mrs (ftaC/l .'were teed in a fcha«rred i •aanditicin in l tlra bush. Bal'l was arirested tin aboard a vessel which was .about to lleave for The rtfas© or'cdted a deal ctf infcire'St. The itri'al.fock pfece two .-weeks agd, a'ad Ball was found' guilty' eff miurder.)

} TRAIN COLLISION. EIGHTEEN PEIRSiOiNS, KILLED. SIXTEEN INJUR®D» ('Received Jjune 17, 9 aim.) STOCKHOLM, Jutnte 1 16. y The n%ht express from Malmo. to Stockholm obffided with/a goWs .train, iat itflie- Mialntetaefrt etatkm, niear 'Lin&opiirg, owiing' to a - siigniilling mistake. A sleep.k<g caTriaget -was .wrecked, arid others ibadfy damaged. ■ Eighteten ipersotals were killed and six-tee-Jji injured. LATEST DEATH ROLL. (Received Last Nig(h\fc, ,11.50 o'clock.) STOCKHOLM, June 17. ■ Twenty persons were' killed at Linkoppilig, induditig the feev. CKb-K>o.ra,-,of Cricklewood, England. SLEEPING SICKNESS.

.WHAT A COMMISSION HAS PROVED. ! (Received June 17, 9 a.m.) , LONDON, June 16. The S3eepitig Sickness Commission .h-as* proved that-the tsetse fly, known oi&, GilossinSsi : Monsitaniss. is a carrier of 'the idiiise'ase, ais- wc4l as the fly kntowin fas GHoeisi'rik PalpaJis- Significance is 'found in the fact, that while the G4os-