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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 123, 20 November 1894, Page 2

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», FATAL DIVE FROM TOWER BRIDGE. EIGHTY PERSONS KILLED BY AN EARTHQUAKE. NEW ZEALAND and RIVER PLATE COMPANY. THE FLOODS IN ENGLAND. LORD ROSEBERY AND SAMOA. (Per Press Association). London. November 19. An oxpert named Fuller dived from the roof of Tower Bridge into the water (250 feet). Ho was injured internally, and before assistance arrived he was drowned. The P. and 0. Company's dividend for the year is 5 per cent per annum ou preferred and 6 per cent on deferred shares. Mr Ramsay (unionist), defeated Mr Robson (liberal), in Forfarshire, by a majority of 288. The floods iv tbe Thames Valley are the highest for half a century. Eton school had to be closed. The New Zealand Insurance Company has joined tho scheme to reconstruct the New Zealand and River Plate Company, on condition that L 200,000 is written off the capital. The liquidation of tho latter company is to proceed. Tho Court is being applied to for power to extinguish the existing debentures, but not to reduce the capital till January. The Company also desires to carry out its own policy of reconstruction. The St. Jamos' Gazette says the Premier's explanation as to his recent remarks concerning the New Zealand Government and Samoa shirks the real point at issue. Rome, November 19. Eighty persons were killed by an earthquake in Sicily and Southern Italy. Washington, Nov 19. The President will submit his plan for the currency reform to tbe December meeting of Congress. ° i