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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8755, 4 March 1907, Page 2

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Press Association.—Copyright. Ottawa, March 3,

Lord Strathcoma, on behalf of the subscribers, presented Sir Charles Tapper, his predecessor in the Canadian High Commissionership, with a portrait. SiriCharles Topper, in responding, advocated a preferential tariff. Brussels, March 3.

The Konigin Wilhelmina, which went ashore near Flushing, has been refloated.

London, March 8

For the London County Council elections there ware 262 candidates, including 118 Municipal Reformers, 18 Independents, 109 Progressives, 22 Socialists and Labour candidates. At tbe polls 509,081 Moderate and 860,801 Progressive votes I ' were cast, and 21 Progressive ex-councillors were defeated. The Reiormers obtained a decisive victory, returning 80 members against 24 Progressives, and 8 Labourites and ono Independent.

Obituary; The Marchioness o; Ripon. Pretoria, March 8.

Rotha has rearranged his Cabinet, Mr Edward P. Solomon, president of tho Nationalist party, becoming Minister of Works, Smuts Colonial Secretary and Minister of Mines, Eissiek Minister of Lauds. Sir Richard Splpmon declined to join the Cabinet.

New York, March 8. Mrs Eddy's son is proceeding against the trustees of the funds of the Christian Science Association to secure a financial statement, because his mother, as ho alleges, is mentally and physically feeple." London, March 3. The death is reported of Lionel Dodo, African explorer, aged 48. Sir August Manna, musical director of the Cryrtal Palace, is dead, in his 82nd year. Melbourne, March 4. A fire brill-' 5 out in the fore hold of the steamer Kanown& lying at tne wharf, but was quickly subduStL Tbe vessel was andamaged, but one thousand tons of. cargo was damaged by fire and water. The Inter-State Labour Conference resolved that to overcome the results of the Taft’ ¥ale decision the new British law should be followed. A motion protesting against the prohibition of the use of union funds for political purposes was carried. New York, March 8,

In conference the committee at Washington deleted Senator Beveridge’s amendment to the Agricultural Bill' requiring packers to put the- date pf canning dn all meat products.