London.
News has been received from Capetown that Lord Kosmead (Sir Her- ' oules Robinson) is ill, and it ia j reported that his condition is so serious as to cause great anxiety to friends. At a trial of a Britisher by the French Court of Madagascar, the British Consul protested that General Gallieni, the new administrator, had no right to interfere. The British cruiser Pique has been sent to the Philippines to rainforce the Daphne. The Embassies are sending foreigners to recruit the Cretan gendarmerie, despite the Sultan's protest. The capital of the Bovril Company has been largely over-subscribed. " Wag " Harding has challenged Gaudaur to row for the championship of the world and £250 a side. Sir F. Napier Broome, who in early life was a settler in Canterbury, New Zealand, afterwards a leading contributor to the Times, and since Governor of Mauritius, Western Australia and Trinidad, is dead. The deceased has relatives now living in Wellington.
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Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1896, Page 2
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157London. Manawatu Herald, 1 December 1896, Page 2
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