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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 3668, 26 October 1897, Page 2

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(Psb Press AssociationComiMt fer BUBMABINH OABLI.) (Received 9.45 a.m.) TORONTO, October 2d The Temperance Convention i augnrated here has been largely attsndi by delegates from all parts of the toil Amongst those present, and who spot were several Australian delegates. LONDON, October2o Sir Richard Henu Collins, one of ll Justices of the Queen’s Bench, sneos Sir Nathaniel Lioley, who was reoenl appointed Master of the Rolls, via Li Esh ’.r, deceased. The Prince of Wales laid the fowl tiou stone of a Bluecoat Boys’ School Howsham. The remains of 44 Taarna ” (Madia Convaeur), the well known Austnlii novelist and writer, have been cremated (Received 9.55 a.m.) PARIS, Ootober 25. The Chamber of Dopaties has b« asked to vote 17,000,000 franos for military establishment in Madagascar, CALCUTTA, October 2$ The enemy at Sempalgha art bell increased daily and have had freqn skirmishes with the British troops, determined resistance on the part of t tribesmen to the British advance anticipated. Captain John Graham BoW son, wing officer of tbe First Battalion < the Second Goorkhai, who led the Good has across the exposed zone at Dify baa returned alone, to bring up reiofoM monte. He was mortally woundsd fbil leading the attack aud haa sines « combed to his injuries. NEW YORK, October 25 An express train from Buffalo to Ni York fell into the Hudson river. 71 oorridor oars floated, aod axes ww procured by whioh the roofs of a numb? of the cars were hewn through, allovii the passengers to escape. inmates of tho other carriages *' drowned. Two of the cars which fell into ttl Hudson river from the lodged in water 50 feet deep. Ssffl women were reeoued severely injarsi Lord Douglas of Hariok, sou aod heirtf the Marquis of Q ieeusberry, who fH amongst the passengers, had a nano* escape.