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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8843, 20 June 1907, Page 2

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Press Associatio i- -Copyright. London, Judo 19,

At tennis Oxford University drew with the Australians, Wilding and Brookes, winning two matches and Doust and Roberts losing two. Mr Chamberlain is in London and is very feeble. The steamer Medic has a hole five feet square below tho waterline, and a number of plates arc loosened and displaced. New Yobk, June 19. The Adams Express Company is paying a special dividend of 200 per cent, amounting to 24,000,000 dollars. Sydney, June 20. Madame Albani has concluded a short and highly successful season in tho Town hall. MEtßouiiNE, June 20. Sir John Forrest declares that the Story that the Commonwealth had an agent in Franco trying to arrange for the purchase of New Caledonia was ridiculous. The discovery of a lOin. wide gold bearing stone *in a grave in the old cemetery at Ballarat North has caused a rush, and the country has been pegged out for a mile round tho cemetery. Adelaide, Juno 20.

The capital sentence on the aborigines Oombit and Donah for the murder of Mr Bradshaw and party at Port Keats last year has been commuted to life imprisonment. Sydney, June 19.g| At the final sales of the current wool year, which commenced with good competition, last month's rates wore maintained.