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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9161, 10 March 1910, Page 5

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(By Electric Telegraph- Copyright./ (Pee Press association.) LONDON, March 9. Ogeton and Tonnant, soap .manufacturers, have been awarded £9000 against the Glasgow Daily Record for defamation in connection with the recent Daily MailLever Bros.' libel. Actions against the Associated newspapers and the Harmsworth Association were- settled, Ogston receiving £4500 and costs. NEW YORK, March 9. Forty-three policemen guarded Caruso, the celebrated operatic tenor, during a performance at Brooklyn, owing to the Black Hand Society's demands of 15,000 dollars or in the alternative assassination. Six detectives disguised us Viennese peasants mingled with tho chorus. Received March 10. 8.45 a.m. CALCUTTA, March 9. By an explosion in a starch factory at Noby, India, eight were killed and seventeen injured, many fatally. NEW YORK, March 9. .The Atlantic Yacht Club has offered a 5000-dollar trophy to be called ,thc President's Cup for an international, race from Europe to Sandy Hook in the summer of 1911. LONDON. March 9, Owing to the dearth of Judges, Lord Halsbury is temporarily acting as President of the Court of Appeal. The Globe says it is extremely hopeful that tho progressive statement presented to tho Westralian Agricultural Conference will reinforce the State's claim for increased immigration. Wostralia, once the Cinderella, is now one of the most promising of the States of Australasia. Miss Madge Tithcradge, daughter of Mr G. S. Titheradge. tho well-known actor, has been married to Mr Charles Quartermainc. an actor. F. C. Knight was sentenced to five years for embezzling £7000 belonging to the Barnsley Building Society. The Central News New York correspondent reports that May Yoho is seeking to divorce her husband, P. Strong, of Oregon City. The lighthouse men at Eddystone have been relieved after waiting for a fortnight for tho, gales to subside. Received March 10, 8.45 a.m. CALCUTTA. March 9. Kanaro, giving evidence, said he thought that killing Sahibs would give the people justice. Ho now regretted killing Mr Jackson, a good man, without cause.