GENERAL CABLES.
Ottawa, August 27. It is rumoured iu Ottawa that the British Government contemplates offering the first GovernorGeneralship of United South Africa to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada. Sir Wilfrid Laurier declines to discuss the subject. St. Petersburg, August 27. M. Lopukhin, formerly chief of the Russian police, who was sentenced to exile for treason, has started for Yakutsk, his place of exile. His wife and brother-in-law accompany him. M. Lopukhin, on being charged with treason in having betrayed Azeff, an agent of the secret police, to the revolutionaries, protested that he acted in the interests of humanity. He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, which was commuted to transportation to Siberia. London, August 27. The Government’s amended Licensing scheme considerably reduces the duties on hotels, restaurants and theatres. In lieu of licenses it makes clubs pay 6d in the £ on purchase, instead of 3d on sales.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 474, 31 August 1909, Page 3
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150GENERAL CABLES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 474, 31 August 1909, Page 3
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