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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8958, 25 October 1907, Page 2

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Press Association—Copyright London, October 24,

Lord Rosebery, speaking at Glasgow, said that if, as intimated in the highest quarters, the Government's Scotch Small Holders Bill was to be introduced in an unimproved form, it could only be meant as a battering ram against the House of Lords; because it could not be expected that the Lords, without reasons shown, would recant their deliberate opinion on the principle of the Bill. The Ophir with the English cricket team lias arrived. Melboi-ene, October 25. The preferential duty on candles has been reduced from 2d to IMd. Hobart, October 25. The second reading of tho Bill doubling tho cost of the AgencyGeneral Department has been rejected by 19 to 0. t London, October 24. A central branch of tho Irish League has been established in Dublin. Six red deer and six Mongolian pheasants have been shipped by the Tougarirb to the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. Veltheim, whose arrest for . shooting Woolf Joel in connection witlra plot to murder Kruger was cabled on the 13th, has been released and his extradition refused on the grouud of insufficient evidence.