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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 28 January 1920, Page 3

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* NEWS IN BRIEF. Capetown, January 21. South Africa is considering an invitation to the Rugby Union to lour New Zealand in the coming season. New York, January 23. The "New i'ork Herald's" Tokio correspondent reports that Prince Vasahito. second so,, of the Kmperor. is seriously ill with influenza, an epidemic Of which is at present sweeping Japan. Thirteen hundred nee. cases of influenza were reported in the city on Friday. The deaths daily average one hundred. There are ten thousnnil cases in Chicago, mostly mild, with a few deaths. The oil companies have been advised rhat President Carrnnza has granted permission to forty-six American oil companies to resume drilling operations in Mexico, pending a settlement of the entire oil controversy. Chicago, January 22. - Jt is an.nouncft! that Uie Armour Meat Company's gross totalled 1038 million dollars, of which 14,093,506 dollars were net income. Sydney, January 26. r T hcre have been a number of daring aD '. -"nsive robberies in the city reinTto Mrs «*> * wels \^\ £IOOO. valued at . a roem in an hotel. .Menu. house was ransacked and gooUS w *' value of £IOOO were looted.

The Commodities Commission has granted an application for leave to increase by 2d per pound the prices of bacon and hams, as from Tuesday next. London, January 25.

A proclamation issued from Dublin Castle offers a reward of £IO.OOO for information that will lead to a conviction for the murder of any one of fourteen police victims, beginning with Detective Smith, who was shot in Dublin in July, 1919, and ending with Mr Redmond and Constable Finnegan, the victim of the Thurles outrage. It also offer's a reward of £IOOO for secret information liable to result in a conviction, and a free pardon and the special protection of the Crown in any part of the British Dominions guaranteed to informers concerned in the murders but not themselves actually guilty. Delhi, January 24. The Viceroy of India has issued an emphatic denial of the rumours that the Imperial Government, at the Paris Conference, decided for the expulsion of the Turks from Europe.