CABLE BREVITIES.
LONDON, May 9
Mr J. K. Caird, a merchant, gives to Dundee a cancer hospital costing £ 18,000, and also endows a laboratory for research with £1000 per annum for five years.
The Duke of Connaught and Prince Henry of Prussia were accorded an enthusiastic reception at Cork. The Lord Mayor entertained them at luncheon and expressed the hope that the King and Kaiser would also visit Ireland.
Mr Chamberlain, in reply to a question, said it was not proposed to discuss at the Premiers' Conference the position of the Japanese within the Empire.
A steamship company, known as the East Asiatique Francaise, has been formed in Paris with a capital of £400,000 sterling, which has been partly subscribed. The Scandinavian Messageries.and the Danish East Asiatic Companies each have two representatives on the Board of Direct-
NEW YORK, May 9,
Malcolm Ford, an athlete, of Brooklyn, vyhile ill, shot his brother, Leicester Ford, a novelist, in a fit of aberration and then committed suicide.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 110, 10 May 1902, Page 5
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