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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 125, 3 June 1910, Page 8

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. .. .< [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] APPENDICITIS AT SEVEN. LONDON June 2. Viscount Chelsea, aged '$, died while undergoing an operation "for appendicitis. •' •■'■•'■•' '•.■'■■ •■■ ■'' ■'■:'•'' , [The late Viscount was the grandson and heir of the Earl of Cadogan.J PEARY AND THE KING. LONDON, June 2. King George gave audience to Hear-Admiral Peary for half an hour. A SCOTTISH EXPEDITION. LONDON, June 2. A party of Scotch agriculturists is to visit Australia, including Sir Carlaw Martin, Sir John Sinclair, Dr. Shirra Gibb, and Messrs R. B. Greig, Barber, Pram, Dunlop, Morrison, and JBenderson. ■ OLD-AGE PENSIONS. I MELBOURNE, June 3. The latest estimate of the CommonVealth Treasury in ■ connection with •old-age pensions 'indicates that the expenditure for the past year will be close up to the original estimate of .£1,500,000. ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER. ■■<* SYDNEY, June 3. The North Coast steamer MacLeay bumped on the MacLeay bar and sprang a leak. The crew were at the pumps all night. The vessel reentered the river and was beached. ! LABOR AND JOURNALISM. ■;', PERTH, June 2. The Labor Congress: has decided to start a 'La'bpr daily paper in Perth. The capital, of the paper will be £30,000 in £1, shares, and it will be \ managed by a committee of twelve.