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Alfred Freeman, formerly manager of a drapery store at Eketahuna, who attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat in Wellington on Friday last, is in a very low condition, and there is but little hope of his recovery.
'The Times' advocates a reform of the House of Lords by the selection of 200 of the best of the peers with the addition of the life peerages. Owing to extensive floods in the Department of Nord, 100,000 Frenchmen are thrown out of work. Mr R. H. Leary proceeds to London via Melbourne oh the 12th inst. to personally superintend the city loans conversion. «» On Thursday, at the Mornington Presbyterian Church, Mr Sneddon, on behalf of the choir, presented Mr J. B. Fergusson, organist and choirmaster, with a silver teapot on the occasion of his marriage, and the members of the junior singing clas3 gave a butter-dish.
A lunatic asylum near Stockholm was destroyed by h re - Fifteen inmates were killed and three escaped. Mr Valentine, the New Zealand dairy expert, has applied to be allowed to resigp in order to promote his company.
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Evening Star, Issue 9534, 3 November 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)
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185BRIEF MENTION. Evening Star, Issue 9534, 3 November 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)
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