ROBBED HIS FATHER'S HOUSE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 186, 6 August 1913, Page 5

ROBBED HIS FATHER'S HOUSE.

HEAVY S3KTENCES. SYDXJSY, August 5. On April 24, the residence of Capt:iin Cox, at Woollnlir.i, was broken into, nml jewellery valued at ISO stolen. On Jimo Itllli, the tame ]|OUM VM eglin broken into, and after a. long struggle - villi the intruder, who wore :■- nmsi;, unci whose name proved to Iβ Laurence, the two Cox had to part witli n. ring vnliicil at £ISO. Laurence also attempted, the same right, to "!iold up" at the point of the revolver, a man drivinj; in a boggy along Jli-lmum Itond. It tTuippirod Unit lie was Mllatfd—«kl, indeed, prompted —in these tfllairg by a, yourfi Ind nnincd Eo.v Cox, a brotlwr of (ha JSisiien Cox. To-day, Lnurctice wna Bontciiccd to fire yonre' pciml servitude for brfaklng and entering, 10 yenn for robbery with violonCG, and H"years for "stickitifi xip" nnd iTouiiding, the sentences to run concurrently. Tlio lad Cox \rns scat to prison for tffo years on cndi of tlio three charges. REVOLT Itt CHINA. P.EDDL TBOOPS KILL 13A38P-. LONDON, Ausnst 5. T]ie Cantonese relicls to-i]iij- fircil on the Chineso steamer Snnißhui, killing three and wounding five passengers, nnd disabling the vessel. TJio Cimtonc?e troops nt Intonj; have mutinied nnd killed their canminnder. They also annulled Ilia proclamation of indeiientlencc. The. rebel leader Jins Dcd to llongkong. FIGHTING CONSUIViPTION. EFFECT OI" BETTER. HOUSING. LONDOX, August 0. Addressing the Tulicrciilosis Conference to-day, Jlr Asquitli iulogfsed at considerable length the work done to check Iho scourje, and said thcru wan rcii.son to expect greater prOßrcEa in tlio future, due iHgely to the steady and continuous improvement in sanitation nnd better dwellings for the- poor. TTJBERCUXIN TBEATMEira , . POTEKT FOR GOOD AlfD EVIL. ("Sydney Sun" Kjicclul Service.) LONDON, Augunt E. Dr Woodlicad, lecturer in pathology nt Cambridge Unlvoreity, referring to the value of tubircuSln, eatd -tliat unrlcn proper lioiiditlonn it exerted n favourable influnnee, but never conferred comnlele immunity oji ninn nnd nnlmaln. Its iiidiHcriininntn and iiiiintelh'BCJit use wan n. f;reat danoer. It was an equal power for evil anil for ffood.

BERLIN OLYMPIAD. FRENCH ATHLETES ACTIVE. ("Sydney Sun" Social Ecnrlic.) PAWS, August 0. The French national committed in connection v/itli Hie Olympic fjaencs is asking ilio Qowrnment to grant jE2ity)oC towards training a team for tho meeting at Berlin. The Sporting Annociation is Bpcndinp; £4,000 nnnuallj- for the next three years jii iliacovcring iiml tntiuiiis Olympic mmpclitorß. Bouin, tho lone-distance champion, [ins gone to the United Slates to study American methods. NOT OF OIL ('•Sidney Sun" Special Service.) LONDON, August 5. Speaking at CnnlifT t<w]n.v, Mr D. A. Thomas (mannßinc Jircttor of the Cainbrinn Comtiino nnil othrr eiml cffliipnniofl in Wales) says tliat bo is not afraid ot oil supplantine coal iv ihia generation or tUo MM.