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—■ ♦ Tibetan Treaty modified. Japanese reverses reported. [Varying Japanese fortunes. Another great battle begun. - Licensing Bill in the Council. •Hosptital Contniission resumed j Mullaii is negotiating for peace. > . Roads, in Manchuria are desperatelybad. Maritana at His 3da.jesty's Theatre to* night. , Hussians have re-occupie4 Shaho) Station-.-. ' ;Jiranfcßn's grave found by. Arctic Ex« peditioij.. ■• Russians expect battle to last till end of week-. ■ • ..." ifadamc Lilian Tree (Maritana)' at baiidl contest concert to-night.V Russians ..reported to have captured! some positions; and many guns. While"big Japanese defeat is discredit* cd. several reverses are reported^. Juiropatkin cabled the Czar th%* RUs«ahs would 'fconquer or die.?. ," Time centres of the.respective .nrniiea are now engaged in a- severe struggle*: So far ho amendments of any. imV!' .i;o; the; Licensing, Bill have beejixK madb;_by the TJpper Hoiise. ■ . Great Sritaih-is to' hold: the Chumbi Valley in Tibet, pending payment o&; ihdernhify by- snMr'inkaimehts. Oyaina reports' a Japanese, rcverae, ins which there Were one thouaarid/casuaL. ties,i aid a' Russian'repulise, -with heavy; losses. , '*■•-- - . Legislative Council last .nightdealt with the constitution-of Licensing Coin* njittees, and the' cancellation of licenses. ~...:■, •-..•-• . \$ » i> < "Setihons 1 wbn J t;seil any paper ,in tlje world,' s '', said Mr Upton;, at the- Synod, yesterday.. '.'People, won't read sermon* — r nofc nowadays, anyhow/ > - - . ; Lord: Hugh'; Cecil, convinced that. th» Balfour policy is.widely, cttfferen'fc. from, that .of Sir Chamberlain,- has hinted his intention of supporting the; Gic* yeftiutent. ■ ~. A Arc resulting 3 ronr the bursting of a kerosene stove at the Catholic bazaar at Waihi, caused .great alarm to the attendance, but a panic was averted by. ite rapid extinction. „..'•-., The Minister in; charge of the Tourist Department said that further ex« .penditure on the Rotorua Sanatorium was- tinder consideration, ■ but that the baths-mUstVbe dealt with first.- ; -'-. >:i ;At the sittings of. the Old Age Pen-* siofis Court yesterday, Mr H..5.-'WaJr-dell, S.M.,* presiding, 'full-pensions of £;1S per annum; were granted to Susanna ' Boyes, -George Winkworth, Mark: Mansfield, Janet Campbell. Ann Smith, Cornelius. Coffee and- Lcl ilia -'Hughes. Several renewals were also .granted.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 251, 20 October 1904, Page 1
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