MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.
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The Acting Federal Treasurer esti> in akm tiiv surplus at £500,000. Tho Cau.ilnv.iua Proas in seven mouths sold seta of the new "Encyolopnoiiiu Britunuico." repreaentina iiKJO.UOO.
A thousand delegates of publio bodies .".;.j social welfare eooietaee attended tho National Conference for tSe Prevention of Destitution, held in London tin* week.
Jyvideut-o at the inquest showed that Sir \V. b. G lhert's death was caused by syncope, duo tj oxertjon in snni" imnj; to assist a lady bather in distress. The White Star liner Titanic hai been launched.
HiirlanU and Wolff nxo building • » Hamburg-American liner larger than tho Titanic.
The Atrial Conere*: lins opened at Pans KovontMn States, including Britain, being represented. Seventy thousand pounds of rubber were per. dentally burnt at the Gcd:;ng JSstate, Penang. Tbe Secretary of tho Queensland irsdes Council denies that there Is any talk of a general 6trike. _ French waterside labourers fatally injured a comrade who had refused to join in a strike.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14458, 2 June 1911, Page 5
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162MISCELLANEOUS CABLES. Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14458, 2 June 1911, Page 5
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