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CRACKSMEN'S BIG HAUL,
NEW YORK, July 18.—Cracksmen secured 30,000 dollars worth of jewellery by blowing open the safe of a jewellery establishment. WORK OF HOOLIGANS. CAPETOWN, July 18. It is officially stated that an investigation at Johannesburg shbws that a large proportion of the wounds inflicted during the riot were caused by revolvers and shot guns,' the ammunition for which had been looted by hooligans. BROKE ADRIFT. BERLIN, July 18.—An airship at Schuetteland broke adrift and became a wreck. A soldier was carried up, fell 600 feet, and was killed, a second one being seriously injured. CONVICTIONS QUASHED.
LONDON, July 18.—The'High Court at Edinburgh quashed convictions for nonpayment of contributions under the Insurance Act on the ground that the Act had not coferred the rigid to sue on the Scottish commissioners. SECOND READING. LONDON, July 18.—The Scottish Temperance Bill has been read a second time in the House of Lords without division. The speeches indicated, the hopes that the bill would pass, as agreed, without recourse to the Parliament Act. DOCKERS’ DEMAND. LONDON, July 18.—About 11,000 dockers at Hull struck for an increase of a halfpenny an hour, with tin 1 right to cease work at five in the evening through the year. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. LONDON, July 18—The Rev. Samuel Collier has been elected President of the Wesleyan Conference at Plymouth. The next Conference is to be held at Leeds.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1913, Page 6
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