Special Telegraphic.

Cromwell Argus, 18 July 1910, Page 4

Special Telegraphic.

TUTS DAY. Rather unexpectedly the Maori football team who are returning from the Australian tour defeated Otago by seventeen points to eight. The American Universities team were badly beaten by Wellington by twenty-two points io nil At the inquest on Donald Larnach, eldest son of the late Hon. W. J. Larnach, a verdict was returned that deceased died from a bullet wound in Tie head self indicted. The evidence showed ho was in financial difficulties. A deputation of runholders and those interested presented the Otago Land Board with a petition setting mt the disadvantage which they -mher. The board is in sympathy with the main object of the petition that the pastoral tenants should re--ceive a guarantee as to the valuation of the improvements at the end of their lease, and whether or not the runs are to bo again offered as such. At a mass meeting on Saturday night resolutions were carried to abolish the licensing of bookmakers, to suppress the totalisator or to give the public an opportunity of aa expression of opinion thereon, and to prevent the exhibition of pictures of the Jeffries-'Johnson light. William Trevis, who escaped from custody at Wanganui in March, lias been arrested at Tauranga, having been working in the country since his escape. At a meeting at Christchurch convened by organised labor, a resolution was passed expressing indignation and protest against the extraordinary action of Justice Sim in the Shearers dispute, and views with serious alarm his coercive attitude towards the union, also his prejudging the case from newspaper reports, and also his most insulting reference to the Shearer’s representative. About 2000 farmers have been cited in the Shearers dispute in tlawkos Bay and Wellington. At the Wellington races on Saturday the Stewards Handicap was won by Electrakoff, with Mundic second. Miramar Handicap - Multiple 1, Penza 2. Hurdles Wfiite Cockade 1, Gae-. lie 2. Parliamentary Handicap - iifiliu 1, Merrie Zealand 2. Winter Hurdles Paisano 1. Trial Plate— Morecuinbo 1. Te Aro Handicap - Cmteudent 1. A Loudon cable advises that the Eclipse Stakes of ten thousand sovs, was won by Neil Gow, with Lemberg second. Ncii Gow defeated Lnubarg m the Two Thousand, but the latter won the Darby with Neil Gow sixth. Dredging returns fur the week total 553/9, Waikaia, with 151/12. heading the list. CABLE NEWS. London, July 10. Violet Spencer, a parachutist died from a fall of forty feet. Germany is secretly building a huge fleet of submarines. Agata Ritibor, a roman catholic has been excommunicated for marrying a cousin of the Kaiser. Sir Wm McE ichern’s whole estate has been valued at £121,320 gross. A demented Italian wine merchant has confined his wife and eleven children for past five years in separate rooms in his house at Naples. He fed them with maize, potatoes, eggs and poultry. He took two of his boys for a walk and they informed the police that the mother bad not seen the children for five years. Immense interest is taken in tbs case in which Crippen killed his wife aud after being dismembered burying the body in quicklime. Crippen is believed to be accompanied by his typist Leneve, dressed in boys clothes. Serious strikes are probable on the American railways, unless the demands of employees are conceded. A drought in Canada has reduced the wheat yield in Southern Manitoba to eight bushels. The Southern Alberta crop has been totally lost. At Bisley meeting Matefield of New Zealand and four Australians have qualified to take part in the final stage of the King’s match, A strike in the cotton trade has been averted by the demand for a reduction of wages being withdrawn. The Victorian Beaurepaire won the 110 yards swimming championship at Blackpool,