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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 141, 17 June 1913, Page 1

Marlborough Express.

N6. 141. VOL. XLVIII

BLENHEIM, MARLBDROTJGKt, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1913.

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ship-building works at Newcastle. He warmly repudiated the alleged imputations of feathering his nest as Minister for Works. .

"ENCOURxVGEMENT TO MURDER."

SYDNEY, June 16. The Woodfordleigh Farmers' Union resolved against the leniency ,of the Government in remitting death sentences, thereby encouraging murder and other serious crimes.

SIR HENNIKER HEATON

SYDNEY, June 16. Sir Henniker Heaton, in a long letter to the press, enumerates the claims and advantages of cheap cables. He says: '^Ye want tne cable post for the million. Vested interests alone stand in our way. Millions of years of time would be saved by the people of the Empire by electric communication being made general to the. Southern Empire alone." He suggests as a first step the meeting of the PostmastersGeneral of the Dominions. If they resolved to have land lines costing only £30 per mile in place of cables costing £200, and the political frontiers lor telegraph lines abolished, it would be a near approach to the ideal of penny a word messages.

The Foxton paper understands' that one of the has had to. close down temporarily on account of coal shortage. Residents of the town ate cutting pine trees into firewood, owing to the shortage of wood.