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(By Electric Telegraph —Copyright). Per Press Association.) LONDON, May 16. The Tribune states that massacres of French missionaries have occurred at N garhurei in China. A Royal Commission has been appointed to make enquiries into the working of the vivisection law. Received. May 17, at 8.54 a.m. BATAVIA, May 16. The Batavian newspaper Niewsblad states that Hutch vessels refused to take coal from the island of Pulu Laut, considering it unsatisfactory, while German ships bought it freely. Therefore a GeriHan agency has been established though the company remained entirely Dutch. BERLIN, May 16. The Reichstag has passed a bill paying all members £100 a year. (Received May 17, at 9.17 a.m.) LOUDON, May 16. The wife of Captain Kershaw, commander of the steamship Ophir, committed suicide while on her honeymoon tour. She walked deliberately into a miil stream. She parted from her husband, shortly before on excellent terms. A verdict of temporary insanity was returned at the inquest. The excitement in the tin market continues. Many old mines are reopening in Cornwall. Mr Henniker Heaton, in the House of Commons, will ask if in view of the commercial and strategic potentialities of the New Hebrides, the Government is adequately safeguarding British interests.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8191, 17 May 1906, Page 5
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