I Yes 11,100 \ I • No 720 V j ' July 28. 1 : The voting took place in this colony yes* terday, with the following result: — Yes ... ... ... _. 13,800 No ... ... 800 THE PEACE CONFERENCE. « , THE CLOSING MEETING. i AMSTERDAM, July 30. The representatives of 16 States have signed the optional arbitration schema adopted at the Peace Conference. The President of the Conference, in delivering his closing speech, said that the work achieved was sincere, practical, and wise. 'The conference, had reconciled the opposing principles of the sovereignty of individual State? and international sovereignty. The Pope, in a letter to the conference commending the scheme of arbitration, promised to give it his support. The question of the adhesion of the Pop© • and the Transvaal to the Peace Convention i will be referred to the signatory Powers. LONDON, July 31, The Standard states that owing to the firmness of Vice-admiral Sir John- Fisher and Major-general Sir John Ardagh, the' j naval and military^ experts attached .to the ■ | British delegation to the Peace Conference, - the work of the conference has not' impaired Great Britain's means of defence. Great Britain, it says, will not sign the. ! convention, until the law officers have ' ex- , l amined the'texls. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ♦ j - LONDON, July 26. ! In the House of Commons, Mr HamilJ ton stated that Ranjitsinhji had no legal ' j claim to rule the State of Navanagar, since the death of Kumar Jaswant Singhi. j The Naval Works Bill was read in the House of Commons a second time. It provides for the expenditure of six and a-half j millions, part of the £23,600,000 previously sanctioned, the amount to be used chiefly in dockyard extensions at Home and abroad. j At the Hobort City Police Court a woman. : who was a secondhand dealer, was convicted of feloniously receiving a pair of stolen boots, the property of a sergeant of police. She was imprisoned till the rising of the court — four minutes, or 116 minutes less than it took to dispose of the' charge. ... fit What 49es Mil £t\ uu • ' iF^ajP** I *^^ It causes the oil glanda wLr^f^ * n t B kin ty? become more • j&Sf%f«&il*'& active,' making the hail rail «*^Z*^ ! "'**"*'. soft and glossy, precisely Hjl!/^ >£j|g|2 as nature intended. fiz^sfi&jflP It cleanses the scalp W^__\^^S fr° m dandruff and thusrejl||i|§p||Jiss^ moves one of the great EpS^r^lves.,. causes of baldness. ' ffif^i^^^^^ ** makes a better csp " ' fßs|g2§§o**^^ culation in the scalp and stops the hair from cominc out. It preveafs and ■ " X cures fcaitiaess. i 1 Ayer's Hair Vigor will surely make hail • grow on bald heads, provided only there is any life remaining in the hair bulbs. w * It restores color to gray or white hair. It ' does not do this in a moment, as will a hair i dye; but in a short time the gray color of • - age gradually disappears and the darker color of youth takea its place. PREPARED BY " V Dr. J.IG. Ann & Co., Lowell, Haas., XT. S J^.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2370, 3 August 1899, Page 13
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