AUSTRALIAN.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph—Copyright) (Received Aliirdi 4, 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Maijeh 4. Captain Hixon was accorded a noival funeral.'"' ; •At i\ meeting oi the Rifle Association there Svere strong complaints at the scarcity of rifles. It atos stated th&4( over twenty olubs recently formed ootdd not bb supplied with rifles, the stocks of bpih rifles and barrels bAing completely exluiutsted. <■■■'> ■ i ■The Telegraph, commenting oil tlio New. Zealand drink bill, iptjites that doubtless th« figures would have been bigger had there been .no temperance M(ave, but, as ha^^^ be^q ;e^pec(^d the Reform agitation had. brought tliein beJpiAV what they actually were. ''. , ■ v \ BRISBANT^ "■■'MhToIi 4;f > » The Rev. Warsliam/ has ■■ been elected president of the IVlethqdifit C6nfex*enoe,^ | f ' / ii^^OUE^ MaTQh 4v *.' postal . year make largely .ahbreaaed provision for Teniedying the pi'esent disorgauised state of the postal and telegraphic services.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11792, 4 March 1909, Page 5
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