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KIPLING CONVALESCENT. LONDON, Dec. 14.—Mr Rudyard Kipling is now convalescent and has been ordfeml by bis medical advisers to (lie south of France. DAMAGED ORONSAIL LONDON, Dec. 16.—Owing to the injury to her propellor, through bumping the bank of the Suez Canal, the R-.M.S. Oronsay will he two days late in reach ing Toulon. SOCIETY WOMAN’S BUT. BOSTON, Dee. 16.—Eleanor Sears, a Boston society woman, and a former tennis champion, won a bet that she would walk the 47 miles from Providence (R. 1.) to her home within 24 hours. She started her walk during a snowstorm. MEXICO PAYING UP. NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—America has received from Mexico 47,000 dollars (£9400) as the first, instalment of perpetual annual payments as interest upon n. fund founded 1 over 200 years ago by Jesuit missionaries. ANTI-PROHIBTTION CAX 1P AIG N. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Senator Edge, the U.-S. Republican “wet” leader, opened the anti-prohibition ■ campaign with a speech in Congress, in which Im demanded that beer containing not more than 2.75 per cent, of alcohol should be permitted. “The real friends of temperance admit the failure of the Volstead Act,” he said'.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 15
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