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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12120, 6 June 1895, Page 2

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fßr Electric Tele«raph— Coptbiget.l FORMOSA FOHM4LLY HANDED OVER TO i PAN. OSCAB WILDE INTSANE. PEOPOSED PBODUCE AUCTION SCHEME. THE SILVER MARKET. THE DEAN COMMISSION. (Phb Press Association.) Shanghai, Jane 4. The formal transfer of Formosa to Japan has been effected. London, June i. The Directors of the Oddfellows' Society have agreed that the time has i arrived for th 9 formation of female lodges. It ia reported that Oscar Wilde became insane when his head was shaved, and had to be confined in a padded room, Trengrouse and Company will co-operate in the produce auction scheme proposed by Sir W. B. Percival, Several leading bankers and importers are favourable to the proposal. Stoddard scored 154 for Middlesex against Somerset. Sydney, Juno 6. Activity in the silver market continues, and there has boon another all-round advance. Centra's have undergone a further rise of 33 3d. A number of doctors have been examined by the Dean Commission with a view to establishing the theory that Mrs Doan's illness was not caused by poison, but was an attack of peripheral neuritis, following influenza. Several deposed that this affection not uaconi'jionly supervened upon influenza, and the symptoms were vory difficult to distinguish from arsenical poisoning.