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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8377, 11 March 1907, Page 5

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FISHERIES AND NAVIGATION IN THE FAR EAST. Received March 10, 4 p.m. ' PARIS, March 9. \ It is stated by French newspapers that Russia and Japan are concluding an agreement settling the fisheries and navigation questions in the Far East. A WEST AFRICAN REVERSE. LONDON, March 8. Natives of Leiberia (? Liberia, negro republic in West Africa), at- 1 tacked a small British force at Lela, . two hours' march north of Walade ; (? Walata, an oasis in the Sahara, • about 285 miles west by north of Timbuktu). Captain Norman, com- , mander of the party, and another . officer were wounded. The force was , compelled to return to Walade. A RAILWAY MAGNATE. NEW YORK, March 8. Mr E. H. Harriman, who has just made millions by a coup on the New ; York Stock Exchange, admits that he . controls 25,000 miles of railway. He : advises the adoption of a 6ft gauge and more powerful locomotives at a i; / cost of a billion dollars. I (United States railways are quite ' unable to cope . with the produce traffic of the present record prosperity) . VALUABLE PICTURES BURNED. LONDON, March 8. Sir William Miller's residence, Englemere Lodge, Ascot, has been burned. Amongst other pictures destroyed were several fine Titians and Turners. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. LONDON, March 8. The half-yearly the Bank of Australasia announces a dividend of 12 per centum, and a bonus of 8s per share. The sum of £30,000 has been added to the reserve fund, £12,000 to the bank premises account, £17,000 is to be distributed as bonuses to the staff, and £17,800 will be carried forward. A GERMAN MURDERER. BERLIN, March 8. Mueller, an ex-teacher, was sentenced at Bayreuth in November for ■ the murder of Bertha WuenschelI meyer, aged 11 years, who was prisoner's pupil, and whose body, ! after lying in his bedroom all night, ' was buried in a wood next morning. : Mueller is now undergoing trial for the murder of a widow named : Enders. 3 When sentence .• was pronounced in t November, the Judge had the 1 widow's skull laid on a table, and summoned prisoner to swear on it that he was innocent. Mueller broke down, and confessed he was guilty. He has now repudiated the confession, saying he made it in the hope that he would be sent to an asylum. s In making the repudiation he has Y revealed his sanity. 1 ~