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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42772, 31 August 1905, Page 2

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UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.] New York, Yesterday. The damage done to the fourmasted barqu°, Marlborough Hill, which caught fire while loading oil for Sydney, was slight. Advices from Jacksonville, Florida, state that the steamship Placonic has foundered in a storm, twenty being drowned and two saved. St Petersburg, Yesterday. Three hundred and forty-two Professors at the University, Odessa, are abstaining from their duties un'il the people are given a 11... civil rights and the universities receive academic autonomy. Other universities are imitating. The Czar on the 10th, ordered the mobilisation of reinforcements for the East at Riga, Windau. Yiena, Gioino and|several other centres. r Washington, Yesterday. M. Sato, a member of Korriura’s side, announces that Japan will make fresh concessions. It is understood the concessions refer to indemnity adjournment expected to come up for consideration.

Paris, August 29. It is stated in Parisian newspapers that the French Minister, failing to induce the Sultan to release the Algerian, has been ordered to leave Fez. Madrid, August 29. King Alfonso joined the astronomers at many stations at Burgous to witness the total eclipse of the sun. Several observatories have been established at Algeria and Las Palmas. Capetown, August 29. The British Association was feted at Maritzburg and Ladysmith. They visited the battlefield. Chinese deserters in a band murdered a Chinese trader, whose store, near Krugersdorp was raided by some marauding bands who are still uncaptured.