GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
The Queensland floods continue to recede. Several persons who took refuge in trees have been rescued. A man named Brushabcr wa3 drowned in the flood waters of the Wan-ego River, Queensland, yesterday. The Lord Mayor of London (Sir John Knill) has invited a team of Canadian cadete to visit England on Empire Day. Three High Lamas and their suitea have reached the Indian frontier from Tibet, and are proceeding to Darjeeling to consult the Dalai Lama. The Australian Shipping Conference has reduced the measurement freight on mail steamers by 10/, and by cargo steamers fine measurement 5/, others 2/6. The boom on the London Stock Exchange in rubber companies continues. The article itself, at the auctions in Mincing. Lane to-day, fetched 11/ por pound for best varieties. During an anti-American riot in Bogota, the capital- of the South American Republic of Colombia, two English girls, who were mistaken for Americans, were robbed and beaten.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 71, 24 March 1910, Page 5
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