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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10658, 29 May 1913, Page 8

LATE CABLES.

SECOKD EDITION.

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received May 21), 1 p.m. London, May 28. The underwriters received 75 per cent of the Royal Mail issue despite it was offered at nine points below the quotation for similar existing stock. The Duchess of Connaught is progressing satisfactorily. She is carried into the garden daily. Michael Scott was disqualified lor arriving ten minuses late at the beginning of the thin! round of the golf c h a mpio n ship. The Appellate Jurisdiction Bill has been .passed by the Lords and propr. 'at.! second time in the Commons. Sir Herbert Tree and Mr Beeeham produced Strauss’ “Ariadne in Naxos” at His Majesty’s Theatre. It is]'fund erst cod that Vickers, Ltd., have bought the Thames ironworks. The King and Queen have returned from Germany. Obituary: Lord Avebury. Most of the past champions and other prominent players have been beaten- in the cany rounds of the amateur golf championship Brussels, May 28. In connection with Britain’s withdrawal from the Sugar Convention it has been internationally arranged that the present regime shall be maintained as long as Britain’s lineal system is unaltered.