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r AUSTRALIAN A N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION) PEERESS WANTS SEAT IN LORDS. LONDON, October '26. Viscountess Rhondda lias petitioned the King claiming the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords in view of the Sex Disqualification Removal Aot. THE COST. LONDON, October 28. Sir 'Eric Geddes, in the House of Commons, stated that under guaranteed earnings, the public would have to pay two or three millions sterling weekly to recoup the railway losses due to the strike. SITUATION QUIETER. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, October 24. The situation at Port Elizabeth is now quiet. 1 Strong mounted patrols m all directions are keeping a firm.hand on the natives. The total casualties during the riots exceeded 150. The press emphasises the fact that the native unrest is attributable to 'Bolshevists propaganda, conducted among them by whites. %
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1920, Page 2
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141MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1920, Page 2
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