GENERAL ITEMS.
.Becoived January 25, 9.20 a.m. London, January 24. The Talie Mr David Aitchison, of Maidenhead TGaicket, who was a director of the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company, has bequeathed .£IO,OOO to the Melbourne University. The South Australian Government 3 per cent ,£1,600,000 loan has been placed ■on the London market. The minimum is fixed at 9*£. Tenders will be opened on the 31st instant. An earthquake ruined several villages an the provinces of Messina, in Sicily. Simultaneous shakes were experienced in the lele of Wight. Brisbane, "Wednesday. The Sugar Journal gives the season's sugar yield as 156,000 tons, an increase .of 68,000 over the previous year. Sydney, Wednesday. Eastern news is to the effect that dur--sng the flood at Hankow 100 houses were toppled into the river, and that between 500 and 1000 parsons were drowned. Melbourne, Wednesday. Two miners named Cole and Murley ■were smothered by foul gas at Stawell. Cole's brother attempted to rescue the former, and had a narrow escape.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11132, 26 January 1899, Page 3
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166GENERAL ITEMS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11132, 26 January 1899, Page 3
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