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(Per Press Association—Copyright) Received March 16, at 8.11 a.m. ' ROME, March 15. In the Chamber, the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced that Italy had constant information regarding the Somaliland campaign. They had reason to 'believe that shortly it would be terminated advantageously.
Received Mar.eh 16, at 5.55 a.m. PARIS, March 15. The Chamber of Deputies, by 318 to 31, has adopted a clause in the Religious Association's Bill forbidding religious congregations to practice teaching of any kind.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 15. Captain Leontieff, of the Russian General Staff, was executed at Warsaw for selling to Germany a list of Russian secret agents. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 15. Six persons, including Fakir Bey, tlie owner of a newspaper, have been .sent^iced to Jiftoen years' imprisonment in Constantinople on a charge of selling bogus declarations to foreigners.
LONDON, March 15. The report of tue British Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders' Society for March shows that trade has considerably improved. Nearly every shipbuilding centre reports an increase.
The newspapers follow-tihc rumour published in the Australian press of a. possible Deakin-Reid; coalition with keen interest.
HOBART, March 15. Sailed—This morning, Ruapehu,, for New, Zealand.
Received March 16, at 11.14 a.m LONDON, March 15.
Tlic Prince ~of Wales-, at Portsmouth, watched the operations for the defence q: the arsenal and the capture of a submarine by picket boats by means of a light steel net.
L. V. Ilarcoiirt, son of Sir William Harcourt, was returned unopposed for Rossendale division of Lancashire in place df Sir William aiathew, who resigned.
in the House of Commons, tlio item. \V. Long, in replying to vjuestions, said he had no information as to whether eating frozen meat caused cancer. The matter was one for the Cancer Research , Committee to deal with.
The ■ 'betting on the boat race is 2 to 1 on Cambridge.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7791, 16 March 1904, Page 5
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