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NEWS IN BRIEF. Capetown, February 19. Robbers attempted to hold up the Doornfontein branch of the National Bank at lunch-time. The police had been forewarned, and had established themselves on the premises. They fired at the robbers, who replied. Two of the robbers were seriously wounded, and a polieo sergeant slightly wounded. Melbourne, February 20.
The Victorian birth-rate for 1919 was the lowest experienced, and the deathrate the highest for seventeen years. Washington, February 20. Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary,
explorer, is dead. Rear-Admiral Peary suffered from pernicious anemia. Thirty blood transfusions were made, but they failed to save his life. An injunction has been granted restraining the Shipping Board from selling German liners. The board maintains that the Court has no jurisdiction over the vessels. Honolulu, February IS. The Japanese strikers left the plantarsi.ins before being evicted. The •Japanese federation has established strikers’ camps, to which Japanese and 1 ilipmas are Seeking. Nine fire? occurred on. rc-v£n sugar-cane plantation?, and destroyed ninety acres of cane. . London, Tehruary Iff. The Brat-.sh Lies have issued a challenge to Australasia for the Davit Cup.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 23 February 1920, Page 3
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183CABLE SUMMARY. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 23 February 1920, Page 3
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