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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9360, 1 February 1909, Page 4

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SECOND EDITION.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph, Copyright. Berlin, January 31. The Hamburger Nachrichten states that the Royal Holland Steamship Company is starting in July a direct line with West Australia, with calls at Fremantle and Adelaide. The return voyage will be> extended to China and Japan. Pretoria, January 31. Twenty-four Natives were rescued alive from the Witwatersrand Mine,, which was flooded by the breaking' of the reservoir, being witbont food since entombment, ten daysago. Lord Rayleigh’s health has improved. / London, January 31. In a match played at Leicester between England and France, England scored two goals and four tries; against Franco nil. The Rugby Union Committee,, sitting at Leicester, | upheld the Emergency Committee’s decision, that footballers on tour should be allowed 3s a day for petty expenses..