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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8999, 12 November 1907, Page 2

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Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, Novembor 12. An old building is being demolished at Parkos, 208 miles west of Sydney, and the mortar is being cyanided in order to extract gold from the auriferous sand used. It is believed that it will yield four pennyweights to the ton. Lima, November 11. A devastating fire at Iquique has rendered 2000 homeless, London, November 11. Of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of Eongland and Wales 148 are Conservatives and 223 Liberal Unionists, and 137 Liberals. In London boroughs there are 22 Conservative Mayors and three Liberals. Received Nov. 11, 8.43 a.m. London, November 11. The chief feature of the Lord Mayor's Show on Saturday was Louis Parker's historical pageant '' The Edwards of England.'' There were no colonial features. The Great Northern express collided with a stationary train at Finsbury. Thirty persons were injured, but not seriously except in two instances.

A dense fosr delayed the Kaiser]s reception at Portsmouth until this afternoon. British cruisers searched for the yacht and escort. The personalty in the estate of William Sanders, of Hawke's Bay, lias been sworn at £35,530. As the result, of a quarrel Carroll, a cbachbixilder at Limerick, killed two men of tlw same trade and then barricaded himself in a room after severely wounding two policemen. He then committed suicide. General Booth, announces that there will shortly be realised tho greatest colonisation scheme since the clays of Moses atlsroom in Soxith Africa. He intends planting there all the unemployed of Britain. Sydney, November 12. Four people were rather severely injured in a tram explosion and others • slightly.