BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
(United Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, October 23. In the House of Commons, the Right Hon. Lloyd George said the Government was increasing the medical benefit, including drugs, to 8s 6d, involving an additional annual outlay of £1,650,000. There are 5000 unemployed in West Ham as the aftermath of the dockers' strike. Many women and children are starving. 4 . The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, in the House of Commons, stated that the Government was considering the question of setting up a Royal Commission to enquire into the economic development and improvement of the conditions of life in the agricultural dis;.ie+s on^the lines of Roosevelt's Country Life Commission in August, 1908. The Greek destroyer Kera, when entering Dover to coal, collided with the pier and had her bows badly damaged Tho outbreak of foot and mouth diseaso at Mullingar is spreid'a.%. An address of British homage, -with two hundred thousand signatures, has been presented to .Sarah J'e-nhardt.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 25 October 1912, Page 7
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