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(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) BELGIAN PRINCESS. BRUSSELS, Oct. 11. Princess Astrid lias given birth to a daughter. FRENCH INSPECTOR KILLED. LONDON, Oct. 11. The “Gazette” Tangier correspondent states Aloors attacked and murdered Arnaud, a French inspector of public works and his wife. They were walking in Khnifra, French Morocco, and were kidnapped. Two daughters were wounded and a woman friend. Cavalry are pursuing the murderers.
FALCON ISLAND ERUPTION. SUVA, Oct. 11. The British Agent and Consul at Tonga received a wireless message from H.M.S. Laburnum on October Bth, stating that Falcon Island has re-appeared and is in eruption. The volcano plays at intervals of about one minute every twenty minutes. From observations, the island is 1,730 yards in length, in a north and south direction, and 1,430 yards broad in the east and west direction. The sides slope up gradually to the edge of the crater, which is 305 feet high. The position is as charted. The island is forty-five miles approximately north of Nukuakofa.
SUEZ CANAL TRAFFIC. PARIS, Oct. 10. It-is revealed in a report to-night that the Suez Canal traffic was 2,395.000 tons, the highest ever attained in eight months. For the first time since the war tHe German ag returned to the position occupied in 1913, being the second highest.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1927, Page 2
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