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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 7

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? [PaEis Ab9ociatxon.3 I WASHINGTON, Jan, 12. President Wilson has decided to ureto the Immigration Bill because of tte insertion of ttaßg^«-

Rene Maxwell, a Sydneyite, won the principal scholarship at the --Guildhall School of Music. It is worth £80 a year, n Gladys Cooper was awarded £1200 damages against the Weekly London Mail for libel by an innuendo not mentioning names, which the plaintiff said suggested that she was going to be divorced owing to misconduct with Hamel, the aviator, and Dennis Eadie, an acjfcor. SYDNEY, Jan. 13. At the inquest on the Broken Hill outlaws a verdict was returned that <lea<th vras caused by shock due to gunshot wounds- inflicted by an unknown person, or persons in self-defence. MELBOURNE, Jan. 13. An arrest has been made in connection with the Federal note robbery, the man charged being connected with the Post Office Department. By a fire in a wharf shed containing cargo ex Warrimoo the goods were severely damaged. A considerable quantity of hemp was in the shed, consigned to Kinnear and Company. fThe cause is unknown.

Solley Burvill, Commonwealth Treasury clerk at Sydney, was remanded on a charge of stealing £2000 worth of Commonwealth notes. Bail <was allowed at £2000.