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Press Aissociation-By Telegraph-Copyright DROUGHT IN TASMANIA. HOIURT, May 16. There is a severe drought in the southern districts. Stock are starving. MR BENT AND WOMEN. : MELBOURNE, May 16. The Women's Suffrage Committee adopted 1 an appeal to the electors .to call upon Mr Bent to resign the-Premiership for blocking women's suffrage and insulting women folk by contemptuous .references to the movement. THE NEW HEBRIDES. At the Presbyterian Assembly, the Rev. Mr Paton reiterated his warning that there was a danger of the New Hebrides passing over to France, despite the convention. There were no prospects of the court beginning its sittings for a long time. The traffic in liquor and firearms and illegal recruiting was worse to-day than it was twenty years ago. Received 12.56 a.m., May 18th. STATE TENNIS. SYDNEY, May 17. In the tennis championships of New South Wales, Heath (the challenger) beat Rice (the holder), 6-3, 6-4, 7-9, 6-4. In the doubles championship, Rice and Pockley beat Parker and Bowker, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13597, 18 May 1908, Page 5
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