FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION.
ready for the opening ceremony on May 11th.
Sea BunsaTid Worfanea Engaged. (Received 9.3 a.m.) LONDON, April 29. Ten thousand workmen are employed getting the Franco-British Exhibition ready for the opening ceremony on May 11th. BRITISH APATHY. Farther Complaints from Hew Hebrides. (Received 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. British residents in the New Hebrides still complain of the apathy of the Imperial authorities. It is stated that all the preliminary official appointments in connection with the new Governmental scheme have been given to French ofli'cials. , THE BRAKE TESTS. A Partial Failure. • L ' . (Received 9.29 a jn.) ' " MELBOURNE, this day. It transpires that though yesterdays tests of the brakes on the Bendigo train proved the Westinghouse brake to be effective in stopping the train, it failed to act in the case of one or two carriages. Xiriver Maclean contended that if it failed on individual vehicles the occasion -Blight arise when it would fail altogether. AGED COUPLE'S CRIME. - * Trunk Horror Again.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 103, 30 April 1908, Page 5
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