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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9439, 8 May 1909, Page 5

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United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Melbourne, May 7. Judge Higgins made an order sanctioning the agreement between the Institute of Naval Engineers and the Steamship Owners Association, both parties concurring. ' Sydney, May 7. Harold Ritchie, a New Zealander, has been acquitted on a charge of forgery. Ottawa, May 7. A public meeting in Toronto decided to organise’ a Patriotic League on the same lines as the Australian League. London, 'May 7. Palmer's Shipbuilding Company, Jarrow, is to build the second of the four Dreadnoughts. London, May 7. Arrived: Athenic from Wellington. Received May 8, 8.25 a.m. London, May 7. The report of the Trust Agency Company ofjJAustralasia shows profits of £530,90. A sum of £2658 has been carried forward. . The gOxford University Press in Aldersgate Street has been burnt. The damage is estimated at £30,000. Oscar Slater has been sentenced to death for murdering Miss Gilchrist, at Glasgow, in her flat on the 21st December. Lord Crewe has consented to allow one month for the hearing of the Victorian objections to the application of the public accounts for a charter.