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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 59, 29 June 1908, Page 1

The British tug Belmore, which wa* bound from Clyde to Sydney, cap-. sized and sank near Port Said. Only, four men were rescued, and these were 15 hours in the water. Mr J. G. W. Aitken, M.P. for Well, ington East, will re-election, Mr A. E. Atkinson, a former member for Wellington, will be the Opposition candidate. Some negroes in the State of Texas, U.S.A., shot two whites, and subset quently six of them were arrested. The crowd forced the gaol, hung five of thom, and shot tho sixth negro aa he was escaping. They afterwards shot three more, A force of Cossacks and soldiers ear* rounded the Teheran House.of Parlia* meat in Persia, and demanded some persons whose arreist the Shah had ordered. The Parliament refused to accede to the demand, and the Shah then sent artillery and destroyed the House. One message states that 800 eitizens were massacred, while the aok diers ran riot in the streets, The Benevolent Trustees are detet? mined to bring to book husbands whoevade their responsibilities by deserfri ing wives and families and thrusting them shamefaced upon the trustees* They had a case before them on Wednesday in which a woman with six children, who had lost touch with hen husband for a good time, received word from him in West Australia in shape of a plea of inability to assist her. This case had earlier been put in the hands of the police, and thejl have located the man, and received particulars (so it was said) which do not tally with the man's plea. . Tho trustees considered the question of . bringing the man back, and decided that in the meantime the chairman shall see the police and report nex| week. Some extraordinary discoveries afl to the effect of No-license have been; made by the Rev. Wm. Thomson, th« secretary of the Licensed Victualler*'' Association. He "proves" lai an &> tide published "by arrangement" a* mongst the cables in yesterday's Times, (1) No-license to be the dead* liest enemy of temperance ; (2) Nolicenso the prolific mother of drunk enncse ; (3) that No-license does no promote the growth of population (4) that it does not promoto th birth rate ; (5) ''hat pro-natal murde is move common in Prohibition Ftato • than elsewhere; (G) that there is i heartless disregard of the beauty an j blessing of motherhood in Vermott ! and Maine ; (7) that consequently No. i license is fruitful of degeneracy I i type and callousness in crime. j> what is more, he supports hia ''facta' with figures—from -