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ME O’DOIIERTYj By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, October 1. Mr O’Doherty, member for Donegal North, refused the request of the United Irish League that he should resign because he attended the Coronation. REVENUE RETURNS. • The revenue for the quarter ended •September was £20,455,000. Customs contributed £8,390,000, excise £8,920,000, and stamps £1,820,000. MEMORIAL FUND. The Queen Victoria Memorial Fund lias reached £210,000. LORD SALISBURY. Lord Salisbury has gone to Beaulieu in France. DISTRESSING EPIDEMIC. An epidemic of diarrhoea is raging at Fraiton, Portsmouth. It is conveyed, by Hies frequenting the city dust heaps. CRAFTY CIIUN. Prince Chun lias married Yunglu’s daughter with the view to an heir to the Chinese throne. ZOLA’S DEATH. PARIS, October 1. Dreyfus visited the coffin in which Zola’s body had been placed. Several of Zola’s friends claimed a national funeral, but an anti-Dreyfus demonstration was feared.. Some Catholic newspapeas suggest that Zola committed suicide. TYPHOON DRIVES A WARSHIP ASHORE. • TOKIO, October 1. The big typhoon previously reported drove the Japanese warship Snikislii111a ashore at the entrance to tnc Yokohama harbor. THE OPAL ROBBERY. SYDNEY, October 2. Burgess has been acquitted of tho White Cliffs opal robbery. The jury disagreed on the second count of receiving, and the accused was remanded STIFF PUNISHMENT. Two unionist shearers have been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for forcibly detaining free laborers at Corona station. UNIVERSITY JUBILEE. There was a brilliant gathering at the conversazione in connection with the University Jubilee. FED ERA L ESTIM AT ES. MELBOURNE, October 2. Additional Federal estimates necessitated by the non-authorising of the loan total £257,000. The greater portion of the expenditure ,\s in Postal and Public Works. The sums proposed to be returned by the various States will he reduced as follows New South Wales by £109,600, Victoria £41,000, Queensland £55,000 and the other States .to a lesser extent.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 537, 3 October 1902, Page 1
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