AUSTRALIAN CABLEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 February 1912, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLEGRAMS.

4 RECEIVED THIS MORNING BRISBANE STRIKE. AN IMPROVED OUTLOOK. (Received Tliis Day, 9.35 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Appearances point to the probability of the strike collapsing. Mr Coy no .addressing a mass meeting, admitted that sowo strikers bad broken away from the unions, and. lie earnestly appealed to the others to remain firm t promising a victory within a week. The announcement was received without enthusiasm. Interest now centres in the compulsory conference in Melbourne. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. ADELAIDE, This Day. The elections arc being bitterly contested. The officials are greatly handicapped through 'badly compiled rolls. Hundreds of electors are disfranchised, some being electors of long standing. In one electorate live voters found their names already marked through. The figures are still far from complete, but progress returns point to a Liberal majority of six in the Assembly. The Socialists will probably gain two seats in tlie Legislative Council. SHIPPING. SYDNEY, This Day. Arrived: Tho Holenn Denny, from Hokianga. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. At the inquest on Mrs Ball, Ball in his evidence declared that lie shot his wife after she had taken poison. He immediately placed the body in a wheelbarrow and toko it to ft paddock and burnt it in tho hope of avoiding discovery. The only reason for shooting his wife was her great pain through drinking carbolic. He nover quarrelled with his wife, and attributed tho reason of her poisoning herself to the fact that she, had been long suffering from rheumatism. DANGEROUS CRIMINAL. Charles McDonald, a dangerous criminal lunatic, who escaped from Parramatta Asylum, is still at large. JOURNALISTS IN CONFERENCE. The first conference of the Australian Journalists' Association has opened. It has been decided to remove tho headquarters of the Central Committee from Melbourne to Sydney. Mr McGowen weloomed tho delegates.

PRIEST DROWNED. Father Kelly, while proceeding to celebrate Mass at Singleton, was drowned when crossing a flooded creek. ARNST AND BARRY. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. A rust's backers cabled, to Barry hi) Thursday accepting his challenge.