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Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 259, 7 November 1911, Page 7

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[fbebb association.] MISS RUBI SEDDON'S MARRIAGE.

LONDON, Not. 6. Miss Rubi Seddon was married to, Stafi-Surgeon Woods at Marylebona Church. Many New Zealanders -were present. GRAY BEATEN. LONDON, Nov. 5. Diggle, receiving 1000 poiivts. staurt, defeated Gray at Soutbend) by 9000 to 8050. BOXING, LONDON, Nov. 5. The Chief Constable evt Biroringhsini has served the pugilists Moran anal Driscoll with- writs to prevent the feather-weight boxing championsmp : being held there in December. ] FREE FROM CHOLERA. CALCUTTA, Nov. .5. The Royri Soots fit Allahabad! are free from cholei"a. Only one case has been reported since they left the Benares cantonments. A POLICE FIGHT. BERLIN, Nov: 5. A band of men barricaded themselves in a- house at Lodz and kept the police at bay for two hours. Two thousand ©hots were exchanged, and. several police and passers-by were wounded. AN INFANTILE EPIDEMIC. LONDON, Nov % 5. In consequence of the epidemic in Cornwall and Devon of poliomyelitis, or infantile spinal paralysis, it has been declared a notifiable disease. END OF A CONVICT. NEW YORK, Nov. 5. "Bill the Miner," a notorious convict, who escaped from the* gaols of Canada and the United States, and who recently escaped from the gaol .at Wainesbow, in Georgia,' when discovered resisted arrest, end was shot dead. REMOVED FROM OFFICE. OTTAWA, Nov. 5. This Minister for Trade and Commerce intimates that W. A. Beddoe, Commissioner at Auckland, will shortly be removed from office. BILLIARDS. LONDON, Nov. 4. ' Lindrum has declined to bind him-1 self to the table manufacturers, to meet Recce, Inman, and Hai-verson; ■ THE PLAGUE. . TANGIER, Nov. 4. Ten deaths from suspected plague are reported. The inhabitants of .the infected ■quarter are segregated in camp. ■ ON THE ROCKS. LONDON, Nov. 4. The steamer Hansy is on- the' rocks at the LizaM. The .crew of 24 wera rescued by the rocket apparatus. The oaptain'o wife and baby were taken or? first. MYSTERIOUS MURDER. SYDNEY, Nov. 5. A mysterious murder is reported from Glebe. The body of Henry Trevasons, a metallurgist, was found in his room at his lodging house with his head battered in by some heavy implement, and liis face, head, an«l throat slashed with. & razor. It is believed that he had been lying dead since Tuesday or Wednesday. Nobody entered the room, which was looked,' until his daughter called last nigh*. The door was forced and the body discovered. The police.are without a clue to the assailant, but it is> # suspected that robbery was the motive. HOEWAY DEFEATED. SYDNEY, Nov. 5. A. A. Taylor defeated Holway at Newcastle in two races of 75 yards by half a yard in 7 l-ssec., and in 100 yar&f by a, quarter of a yard1 in i) 2-ssec. Holway declined to contest the 125 yards. A STEAMER ASHORE. - SYDNEY, Nov. 6. 1 The steamer Port Stephens isashore at Norab Head, and is high and dry. It is unlikely that she ' can be refloated. All on board wore saved. SUNK IN A TYPHOON. BRISBANE, Nov. 6. News received froiti Swatow, 'in China, reports the loss; of the steamier Isle, bound from Japan to Hongkong. She encountered a typhoon, and was sunk. The captain's children and the Chinese orew were d«*owi'ed, and the bodies washed ashore. The natives stripped the clothing off the bodies, and also tried to tear jewellery from the living.