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Grey River Argus, 29 June 1914, Page 5

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■' CASES REPORTED

(Bv/ -Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) - SYDNEY, June 28. Two smallpox Cases are reported. . BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS (By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) LORD MAYOR OF -HULL. <■;.■ LONDON June 28., The King has raised Hull to a j Lord Mayorality. VALUABLE PICURES. LONDON, June 26. At Grenfells eighty-seven pictures realised including Titian's Lorenzo Urbino, A VALUABLE ESTATELONDON, June 28. The earl of Manufield's Hampstead ,estate was sold for .£750,000. A NEW DOCK FOR HULL. j LONDON, June 26. The King opened a dock at Hull which cost ,£3,000,000. ,- ; Hon Tom Mackenzie and many New Zealanders and Australians were present. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. ' LONDON, June 26. A fire in grain warehouses and wool scores at Grimsby Docks destroyed half an ' acre of buildings. There \yas ,£200,000 damage done. BILL TALKED OUT., LONDON June 28. In the House of Commons Sir H. I Vcrney's Bill retricting the general election to two days was talked out. PtJRELY AN ACCIDENT. LONDON. June 28. At the inquest on the victims of the battleship Monarch a verdict was re ; turned that the tackle was defective, but the defect was such as was not discoverable. I GERMAN LINER FOR' AUSTRALIAN TRADE. BERLIN, June 27. The Nbrd Duetscher i/loyd's 16,000 ton steamer Zeppelin, advertised as Hie largest steamer, to Australia, via Suez, makes her (maiden trip in January, when the canal will be deepened \ •'■•'' < to thirty feet. THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE^ ; ..V LONDON, June 26. The Sir Percy Girouard divorce suit was .undefended*. Tho wife, who sought a i divorce, (Considered her husband's bad temper was due to the East African climate, ELECTROCUTED. • , NEW YORK, June 27. . ,A mahdiedvin Hie ' Seattle Hospital after ;nine hours. He came into contact with a live wire, • carrying sixty thousand volts at. a subr-secUon at Puget Sound. He regained conscious ness and walked into a, room containing the transformer, contrary to the rules, passing through a narrow -place at the side he brushed the heavily charged wires^ ..... ,A MAD KING'S SUIT. NEW YORK, June 27. What is believed to be most valuable suiti of. , male attire was brought to New York (by Anita Keoch from Stuttgart, Germany. -. It is valu-. Ed at twenty thousand dollars. It was made for the late mad King Ofo of Bavaria.. The coat, waistcoat, and trousers were embroidered -with gold and silver, and on the coat are said, to be one thousand pearls. LONDON, June 27. Viscount Haldane, speaking at the National .Liberal Club, described the present Budget as the greatest of Hon D. Lloyd George's 'three, because it embodied latently the cooperate system caring for the child . from birth to the end of its school life. He anticipated the creation of a Minister for Health. Hon. D. Lloyd George who followed, satirically interpreting the combined Conservatve and' Labour pro test against reducing, the Budget as an encouraging feature, said that had the taxes been a penny in« £ more to promote social reform the majority of 38 would have 'been, dolled.. Walker's roiHinecy' departm^* .ire making a tremendous effort to cleat out n]l hats in one week's tirno. and \(\ pt|ce can 'do Tt they .will-' g"K F W insta*n~ce, about 50 untrimm.ed'^elt hats U)rmeirly 7s V 6d t to 12s 6d .now only is nd, all 'this J season' '^ha'p^c i^nJ colours.— Advt. , , -