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United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright London, March 15 The betting on the University boat race is 6 to 1 on Oxford. In the House of Lords, the Duke of Devonshire's Bill, dealing with secondary education, waa read a first time. The wife of Dp, George Willis has obtained a divorce. She tracked her husband to Balcaldine, Queensland, and elsewhere in the colonies, finally discovering him, after ten yeara' search, aft Grass Valley, in California. Lord Welby, previously vice-chair-man, has been elected chairman of the London County Council* in succession to Mr T. McKinnon Wood. An explosion occurred on board the first-class cruiser Terrible, in the English Channel. Several stokers were scalded and one killed. The Prince of Wales will shortly visit his brother-in-law, the King of the Hellenes. The Sultan bus invited the Prince to visit Constantinople when at Athens,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 4751, 17 March 1899, Page 2
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142CABLE NEWS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 4751, 17 March 1899, Page 2
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