BRITISH AND FOREIGN
♦ By Telegraph.—Pr&sa Association.—Copyright. | (Received May 12, 10 a.m.) j MRS HARRY THAW. , LONDON, May V„ I Mrs Harry "Thaw has signed a con- ' tract to appear in "Hullo, Ragtime" irt the- London Hippodrome at £6OO a week. SWINE FEVER. An outbreak of swine fever at Leith caused the destruction of 400 pigs. THE SELLARS FAMILY. The "Daily News" has opened a fund for the Sollars family, who allege themselves to have been victims of the compulsory service laws in New Zealand. NOISY SOCIALISTS. At a Congress of British Socialists at Blackpool, noisy demonstrations were made against the Executive. The Congress resolved to raise the parliamentary fund to which members should contribute a shilling a year. INTERCHANGE OF VISITS. Eighty County Council children are visiting Paris, and many French schoolboys are visiting London. SHOT HER HUSBAND. A Berlin , message says that Mrs Blume, who was found guilty of shoot ing her husband under extenuating circumstances, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10766, 12 May 1913, Page 2
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