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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8877, 31 July 1907, Page 2

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Per Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, July 30. Tho fire on the French steamer is out. Damage was chiefly confined to the sail locker and numbers 1 and 2 foreholds where a considerable amount of cargo was damaged by smoko and water. Several firemen were overcome by lumeo bat soon recovered. Cargo is being discharged. . _ , Ntv> 1.01111, July 30. An explosion attributed to tho Italian Black Hand organisation preceded a faro in a Now York tenement house, in which 21 persons, mostly Italians, wove burned to death, and 20 injured. London, July 30. In tho House of Commons the Evicted Tenants Bill passed tho report stage. Sydney, July 30. Governor Eawson has been installed as Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge with imposing ceremony. The State Arbitration Court award gives substantially better wages and conditions to [shop assistants all round. Norfolk Island, July 31. Arrived.—Warship gProuiotheus, from Auckland. She experienced a heavy southerly gale. London, July 80. Sailed.—Nairnshire, for Lyttelton and Coriuthic for New Zealand.