GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
The weather is very hot and droughty in Victoria. King Alfonso visits Melilla, in Morocco, early in January. Two Spanish trawlers foundered in a gale off Larache, 16 being drowned. The Victorian Assembly has passed the bill reducing the land tax from threefarthings to a halfpenny in the £. Under the New South Wales Government's education scheme six evening continuation schools will be started in Sydney in February. The sealing of the Killingworth mine, New South Wales, has been completed. No attempt will be made to explore the mine for some time. The Egyptian Government has expelled a Frenchman named Derroja, director of the newspaper "Depeche Egyptienne," for publishing an article reflecting on the Khedive. j During preparations for a cow-killing ceremony in a mosque in the Hindoo quarter of Calcutta, on Tuesday, the .Marwaris attacked the Moslems. Measures have been taken to prevent further interference,
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 293, 10 December 1910, Page 5
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148GENERAL CABLE NEWS. Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 293, 10 December 1910, Page 5
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