GENERAL CABLES.
Sydney, February 27
The man Wheeler, who shot a girl named Venus, and then turned the revolver on himself, is dead. He and the girl were fellow passengers from England a few months ago. London, February 27.
Dawson, who shot his wife, and then committed suicide in the National Art Gallery, was one of the best-known business men of Montreal, Canada. In the House of Commons Mr D. Piries Temperance (Scotland) Bill embodying the principle of local option, has been read a second time by 174 to 64. Berlin, February 26. The gangway of the HamburgAmerican Kaiseriu Auguste Victoria broke at Hamburg under the weight of people disembarking. Eleven bodies were recovered. The steamer was just on the point of leaving when the disaster occurred. Perth, February 28. The steamer Redbridge from Calcutta, has been quarantined at Bunbury. Captain Smith has succumbed to smallpox, and some of the members of the crew are suffering from the disease. ,> St. Petersburg, February 28. The prisoners who escaped from Alexandrovsky prison were sentenced to death. They refused to ask the Tsar for communtatkm of their seutences, and endeavoured to poison themselves. Five members of the fighting section of the Polish Socialist party have been executed at W rar * saw for minder and robbery,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 451, 2 March 1909, Page 3
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