GENERAL CABLES.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. PARIS, Dec. 26. The railway station at Marseilles has been burned. The damage is estimated at several million francs. A LABOUR DEFEAT. Australian-New Zealand Cable Assooiatiooa. BRISBANE, Dec. 28. Ine by-election at Maranoa to fill the seat vacated by Mr Hunter, who haa b^en'appointed Agant-General In London, resulted in Mr Spencer, the Primary Produceis' candidate, defeating the Labour representative. Labour has held the seat for the past 12 years. ' ROCKEFELLER'S EDUCATIONAL BENEFACTIONS.
Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, NEW YORK, Deo. 25. It is announced that Rockefeller gave fifty million dollars as a gift to the General Education Board, in order to increase teachers' salaries; also forty-five millions for the advancement of science, and five millions to Canadian medical colleges. Rockefeller's gifts now total half a billion dollars. INFLUENZA" IN JAPAN. ~liau-New Zealand Cable Association. WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.. According to medical reports, there is a recrudescence of tho influenza epidemic, similar to that of 1918, ravaging Japan.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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166GENERAL CABLES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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