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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9405, 30 January 1913, Page 3

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(BY IiI.ECTiUG TwifcKAPU—COPYRIGHT.) (Ptß PHEBB ASSOCIATION.) f LONDON, Jan. 29. Lord Skerrington, at the Edinburgh Court sessions, ruled that magistrates were not empowered to prohibit public meetings in the streets. The correspondence schools have presented Col. .Seel* (Colonial Under-Secretary) with an aeroplane. At the lunch following, Sir Joseph Ward. Mr Taverner (Victorian Agent-General) and a number of Australians were present. ColonoLCody is forming a company with a capital of £120,000, to exploit hie* aeroplane. The Dairy Mail says the Treasury has declined to agree to more than five battleships being included in the coming Estimates. PARIS, Jan. 29. Naval experiments to fest. th<* value of aircraft for locating submarines proved that aeroplanes would have no time to be able to warn battlcehins. RERUN, Jan. 29. The Poßtmaeter-Geheral, in tho Reichstag, contemplated the establishment of wiraless to East Africa, the South Sea colonies, and Japan. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 29. A dynamite explosion destroyed the copper works at Elieabethpol. , Six wore killed. BRUSSELS. Jan. 29. Several white slave traders have boon arrested. They exported girls to South American republics. NEW YORK, Jan. 29. Thorpe, the Indian, winner of the Pentathlon and Decathlon prizes at Stockholm. admits that he was a professional baseball player in 1909 and 1910. The prizes will be returned to the Games Committee. American officials consider the incident a great blow to amateur sport.