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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7331, 4 October 1898, Page 3

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pjT EIEOTSIC Tslbobaph—Copxbioht.] (pEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Beceived October 4, at 9.8 a.m.J Washington, October S. In consequence of the ontlook in Ohina the cruiser Baltimore has been hurriedly despatched to Tientsin. St. Petersburg. October 3. Russia is building a number of fast steamers for Eastern ports. The vessels are capable of making the passage from London to Shanghai in 20 dayj. Constantinople, October 3. The cost r»f the preparations for the visit of the E nperor of Germany to the Holy Land emptied the Turkish treasury. London. October 3 The Paris correspondent of the Observer states that Count Eaterhazy confessed to a general of the staff that he gave information for the forgeries, while a high military authority countersigned the order for the forgery. Beceived October 4, at 0.45 p.m. Paris, October S. Captain Marchand has been promoted to the rank of major, ostensibly for services at Übanghi, bat really in response to the honors conferred on Sir H. Kitchener. London, October 3. A lady doctor named Nancy Gaelford ha 3 been remanded at the London Police Court for the manslaughter of a girl whom she dismembered at Bridgeport, United States. A sum of L 37.000 is required to rebuild cottages at Barhadoes. Tne Lord Mayor s fond realised L 21,000.