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WIRELESS ’PHONE ON * ■ IJI GOVERNMENT YACHT. United Press Assn by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Assooiation.) (Received Oct. 24, 7.5 p.m.) SUVA, Oct. 24. Amalgamated Wireless has installed a wireless telephone in the Fiji Government yacht Pioneer and is obtaining excellent results. This is the first installation in Fiji. Mr Farquhar, senior ■ officer in the Fiji service, made the installation. PROPOSED PAN-AFRICAN EXHIBITION United Press Assn- by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Assooiation.) (Received Oct. 24, 8.25 p.m.-j capetow;n, Oct. 24. Elvery organisation in the country, including Swaziland, Basutoland, and Bcchuanaland, was represented in a conference at Bloemfontein to consider the holding of a panAfrican exhibition in 1932. The chairman stressed the increasing interest overseas in African development, and said that the establishment of contact with other African countries would he a great- forward step.
ALLEGED MURDER OF CHINESE. United Press Asßn. by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Proas Assn.) (Received Oct. 24, 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct, 24. Mrs Trapman, who was arrested in connection with the death of her first husband, a Chinese, has been discharged,' the police abandoriing the case. Her second husband, Trapman, now awaits his trial on a count of murder in connection with the first husband’s death. EXTKAORDINARY ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ABYSSINIAN EMPEROR United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Oopyright (Australian Pros* Assn.) • (Received Oct. 24, II p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 24. The Daily Mail’s) Geneva correspondent reports extraordinary allegations against the Abyssinian Emperor, Rastafari are contained in a petition being submitted to tho Lea* guo on behalf of; an Armenian doctor, Dr Gagabedian. who alleges that while he (Dr Gagabedian) was in charge of M'enelik hospital Rastafari tried to induce him to poison the sisters of Lidi Yassou, nominal successors to the Emperor Menelik, whom Rastafari’ reportedly imprisoned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10726, 25 October 1928, Page 5
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