CABLE NEWS
A typhoon in Central Luzon, Philippine Islands, killed eleven people. Crops and property were severely damaged. Kucchenmeister, the manufacturer whose motor car was used by the murderers of Rathcnau, in Berlin in 1922, was acquitted. Another accused, Brandt, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for not informing the authorities of the plot, of which he was cognisant. A fire in Gippsland Co-operative Bacon Curing Company’s works at Dandenong, did damage estimated at £20.000. The Daily Herald lobbyist says that Cabinet is amending the Dole. Bill. It will abolish the relief now drawn by part-time -workers, restore the six days’ waiting period, and generally strengthen the Minister’s powers to reduce the number of recipients. The steamer Merida, which sunk fourteen years ago with a million sterling of gold bullion, was located off Norfolk, Virginia, at a depth of two hundred feet by a salvage expedition of New Yorkers, who dragged hundre is of square miles of the ocean floor before touching the wreck. Divers descended successfully, and expect to recover everything. DELHI, June 28. Sen Gupha, secretary of the Bengal Swaraj Party, has been unanimously elected president to succeed Das.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19347, 30 June 1925, Page 12
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