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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8912, 4 September 1907, Page 2

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Press Association —Copyright. Sydney, September 3. Arrived, 3 p.m., Wimmcra. A railway employee named Walker, of Auckland, was charged at the Police Court with theft anil wife desertion and was remanded to Auckland. SLondon, September 3. The Billiard Association has abolished the cradle cannon. Obituary.—Colonel W. A. Fitzgeorge, eldest sou of the late Dnko of Cambridge . -• ‘ Mr Gladstone has 23300 minor offenders under the now remission of sentences scheme, whereby well behaved short term prisoners are liberated on serving five-sixths of the sentence. Harold Smyrk, won the diving championship of England, comprising plain and trick diving. Stdnf.y, September 4. The annual musketry returns show that the rifle clubs movement is rapidly growing in strength in the State, MELiiooitNE, September 4. Tug conference between the Shipowners’ Fodoraation and the Federal Seamen’s Union of Australasia agreed that the overtime rate ior seamen when the ship has been safely moored be raised to Is 3d, with a slight increase for boys. Hobart, September grin the Assembly the Lender of the Opposition tabled a motion disapproving of the personnel of the Education Commission. The Premier accepted it as one of want of confidence. _ ~ '"’Gisborne, September 3. The Waiapu river, which annually takes toll of human life, has claimed another victim, Wm. Ratchford, a labourer travelling from Waipiro, having disappeared, his riderless horse being found on the bank of the stream.