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Ths firefyceaa y&oht race in Tas mania, and so far as we can learn i Australia, took place from floba recently, and proved a very success fi even*. The distance was about 1G miles, which maj certainly be regar ded as a wooed yacht ra«e in the co onita. There were eight starters, an the Sunbeam (28footor) won on tim allowane#, afiet a very., imereitin nee. Emperor William of Germany j understood to assert that he, as th son of Queen Victoria's eldest chile is entitled to succeed her Majesty 0 tbe loghah tbron°, to tbe exclusioi of the Prince Wales. What th Prince of English people may thio or do about it does not appear to en ter into the " War Lord'a calcula tions. A Showman WB9 onca exhibiting some cariosities, when he held np 1 skull and exclaimed : " Tbia is thi bead of Oliver Cromwell." A mat in the ocowd 9tid it coald not be, fo Cromwell had a very Urge head. A tbii the crowd began >o laagb, bat the showman, not in the least pul about by the remark calmly replied 11 This was his head when he was a boy."
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Inangahua Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1197, 23 April 1898, Page 3
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197Miscellaneous Items Inangahua Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1197, 23 April 1898, Page 3
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