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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8767, 19 March 1907, Page 2

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Press Association.—Copyright. Sydney, March 18.' Mrs Clenishaw drowned herself and infant at Newtown. She was mentally deranged. March 19. Mr Clarke states that the place of Vickers, Maxim and Co. in the mail syndicate will be filled. Perth, March 19. There are floods on the goldfields, and several wash-outs on the Murchison railway, interrupting traffic. London, March 18, Hamdi Pasha, commander at Trebizond, has been assassinated by a non-commissioned officer whom ho recently punished. Teheran, March 18. Fifty Cossacks have arrived at Teheran to protect tho Russian legation. The Governor of Ispahan has resigned and troubles are now subsiding. New York, March 18. The Evening World, New York, reports that Eockfelier is giving ten millions sterling to establish unsectarian schools in China as a preliminary to an effort to Christianise the people. He believes that missionaries should first educate and then try to convert. Berlin, March 18. The newspaper Hamburg Nachrichen urges Germany to employ every means to prevent an Anglo-Russian understanding. Sofia, March 18. M. Gudeff is the new Premier of Bulgaria. London, March 18. The utmost secrecy is preserved regarding details of the new cruiser Indomitable, embodying experiments and latest development'suggosted by recent warfare and gunpowder. Her speed is 25 knots, exceeding any other cruiser’sSister ships, the Invincible and Inflexible, are in course of construction at Elswick and Clyde-Bank works. Paris, March 18 ■ The French destroyer Epee, while manoeuvring with lights out oil Ajaccio, collided with a torpedoer, one of whose steam pipes burst, killing a r quartermaster and a stoker, and wounding another of the crew.