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MELBOURNE, May 26
Premier Bruce has communicated with the Returned Soldiers’ Association, intimating that al! negotiations with the Government would be broken off till the motion that the Ministry was not sincere in its soldiers’ policy was rescinded. The soldiers’ president replied that the motion would not be rescinded till concrete proof was forthcoming that the Government is sincere. LONDON, Mav 25.
Advices from Copenhagen state that during a lecture on board the cruiser Geyser a bomb exploded, wounding 52, mostly officers and petty officers, 15 seriously.
Owing to the low prices prevailing, a frozen mutton firn*, of exporters in Australia is inquiring as to the possibility of having forty thousand sheep shipped hack to Australia. The Australian Press understands that shipment can be arranged at a freight of l|d per pound.
A number of the crew of the Holly* wood, which has sailed from San Francisco, are unemployed fitters and boilermakers who an? going to France, where they have been guaranteed work on the French railw iye. If the experiment is a success other batches will be sent. BRISBANE, Mav 26.
The Irish envoys, interviewed, reiterated their previous views regarding the Irish situation. They will address a public meeting on Sunday. Two hotels and other premises were destroyed by lire at Chillagoe, the damage being £12.000.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18791, 28 May 1923, Page 9
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