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CAPETOWN, December 2. A large congress of discontented Orange River burghers has opened at Brandfort to discuss the non-payment oi war compensation, edueatkmj and other grievances. NEW YORK, December 2. The St. Louis Exposition has closed. While open it was attended by twenty million people. One American bank has failed, and several financiers are embarrassed, owing to enormous loans advanced on a specious story by ■& borrower, that she had a million sterling worth of securities in a certain bank. Steps are being taken to 'compel their production. The borrower is the wife of Chadwick, reputed to be a millionaire physician of Cleveland, Ohio. She denies 'being identical with Lydia Dever, a hypnotist, who was convicted of forgery, and whom she closely resembles. PEKIN, December 2. China has increaseidthe transit duty to and from the treaty ports. The Powers have protested. MADRID, December 2. A great snowstorm is paging-through-out iSpain, and 20,000 persons have been thrown idle. -ft
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVIII, Issue 12366, 5 December 1904, Page 5
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