NEWS AND NOTES.
Trials were being made at Nice with a new airship when the last mail left.
A French priest claims to have discovered a new portrait by Raphael. The Birmingham Small Arms Factory has orders from the Britisli Government for 55,000 rifles. Four deaths from plague occurred on a steamer bound from the River Plate to the Tyne, The iron ore mines at Burrow-in-Fur-ness are exhausted, and will be closed down in a month or two. The Duke of Manchester is visiting America. His wins at poker are telegraphed all over the country. Sir Rudolf Slatin has arranged for the Anglo-Egyptian Administration of the Darfur region of the Soudan. An extensive system of forging Italian bank-notes has just been brought to light in Braz'l. Several thousand spurious notes of the value of .£4 are in circulation Efforts have been made to induce the Admiralty to build submarine boats, but they and the leading shipbuilding firms are of the opinion that these vessels are impracticable.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 March 1901, Page 4
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166NEWS AND NOTES. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 March 1901, Page 4
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