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(Received 15, 8.5 a.m.) PARIS, March 14. The French Senate has decided that only wage earners receiving less than £120 per annum shall be eligible for pensions. Government has proposed to make the limit £ 1 GO. LONDON, March 14. The police have slopped the weekly whist drives which it was the custom to hold in city restaurants on Saturday nights Hundreds of players were disappointed last Saturday. CALCUTTA, March 14. The Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal has ordered the confiscation of a quantity of waist clothes having borders inscribed with a seditious Bengal p. em. NEW YORK, March 14.
Dr. Benson, aged 73, and his wife, aged G7, swallowed prison at the breakfast table in a Philadelphia hotel, and died immediately, '.ihey were disappointed owing to failure to win a prize of £40,000 offered by the French Academy of Medicine for a cure for tuberculosis.
LONDON, March 11. An outbreak of fire cccmreJ at Whiteley's. '1 he customers and 4000 assistants were removed without con* fusion. A dozen firemen were overcome by smoke and taken to the hospital. Qn(J deoartment was destroyed ST. PEIEUSBURG, Majch 1 1. Fourteen convicts, while travelling in a waggon attached to the mail train to Alogbile, extinguished the lights, and attacked the warders while the train was in motion. Three warders and eleven convicts were killed or wounded. LONDON, March 14. The naval estimates are expected to provide employment for 200,000 men fur two years. Two thousand extra are engaged at Poplar broadening and lengthening the slip for the accommodation of Dreadnoughts. Another thousand will be engaged after April 1.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5485, 16 March 1910, Page 3
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