CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20053, 11 April 1914, Page 7

CABLE NEWS.

. «$» HTxiited Press Association —Copyright.; I LONDON, April X. Archibald Minto, one of the defendants in the army* canteen scandle, surrendered on his return to England. f, He has been remanded till June 12th.

The prosecution of Captain White, the leader of the Larkinite procession in Dublin on March 14th, has been withdrawn on the ground that the trouble was due to a general misunderstanding. Captain White has withdrawn his charges against the police.

A signalman on the Newport- Monmouthshire line has patented a foolproof railway carriage door-closing mechanism. A rod running the whole length of the train is operaoie by the guard. The railway company has given £19000 for the patent.

Mr. Bodkin, K.C., prosecuting Fenner, said that owing to the large number of transactions and the enormous sums "involved, he must deal with the several cases separately.

BRUSSELS, April 8. - A portrait by Vandyck, representi Ing Christ on the knees of the Virgin, valued at £10,000, was being taken jln a motor car to Brussels. At Antwerp, while repairing a tyre puncture, the picture disappeared.

OTTAWA, April 8

At four o'clock on Monday, Brown, an attorney of Toronto, received a letter from a woman complaining that her husband had committed bigamy. Half an hour later the husband was arrested, and next morning sentenced to three years.

ROME, April 8. The Vatican is undecided as to the

seat of the delegation. Monsignor Cefretti, who is going to Sydney, will decide whether Sydney or Melbourne is the more suitable