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Manawatu Herald, 14 March 1895, Page 2

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. Sis of the largest merchant firms in St. John's, Newfoundland, have been forced to close, the banks refusing to accept any compromise. The action of the banks is bitterly resented in the colony. The United States Government will permit Canadian cattle destined for England to be shipped via Portland. Four boys, all under 17, strangled two of their sleeping comrades in the Leitz Reformatory, Saxony, with the view of obtaining greater comfort in prison quarters. The young miscreants have been sentenced to terms of 15, 12 and four years' imprisonment. The death is announced of Worth, the well-known costumier. During a violent storm on the African coast the sen rose 90ft at Tangier, and 40 vessels were wrecked. In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Lockroy, who was recently deputed to draw up a report on the state of the French Navy, declared that it was worth one-third only of the British fleets. Besides being deficient in speed, the ships were armed with obsolete guns and over- managed by thirtythree admirals who never left the shore. Mrs Richards, keeper of the railway station at Kimberley, on the North Pacific line, overheard a plot to wreck the night, express, and wired to stop the train. - . The robbers, becoming aware of what she had done, burst into her office and fired at her, and then decamped. • Mrs Eichards, who returned their shots, was wounded, but she succeeded in wounding two of her assailants.