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Evening Star, Issue 14962, 23 August 1912, Page 4

The following \vas cabled to the Sydney «Bni)' last week:—The Nicaiaguan rebel forces under General Mona, the lately deposed Secretary of War, have begun a bombardment of Managua, the capital. It was a long time, however, before the artillery could find the range, all their shells for the first few hours falling short of the city. Realising rather slowly that thev were wasting a lot of good ammunition, the rebels eventually advanced with their guns, and it was not long then before shrapnel bezan to burst over the city Manv women and chiidien were wounded, but on the whole not ranch damage was done. The revolutionaries made a fierce attack on the peiitentiaiy, but were driven back. They then transferred their operations to the eastern e:io, of the city, but fared no better there, the. Government troops promptly repelling the. attack.

In Zaratanto, ?pain, a case h«_ocrT)irec which is probably unique of its kind. A child has just be-?n b-.rn while his fath?r, fiiandt'athr-'r. irreat-crandfather, and preatare all living His name i< Urrhiceechea, and the family are Ba?q e f;>nr. laborers. The errat-grandfather and the great-iireat-graiidfither have acted as godfathers" to the latest arrival. The united family constitutes nearly a wholo village. , , . Nellie: "Mr Hotchpotch, what an you eorr ""drr the most delicate form of flatte;yr' The. Chappie: "Tallin' a married man he don't look it." , _„ -Are we free men or are we thundered the orator. "I pause for .a reply. " Well most of cs are msrncfl, came tbe aivwer from the very last row of seats.