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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42786, 3 October 1905, Page 3

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| London, Yesterday. •f At Stamford Bridge, Larner, of -Boston, walked 8 miles 438 yards in ihe Lour. ; ( The Times St Petersburg corres'pondent reports that the Russian - Government does not consider the Anglo-Japanese treaty indicative of an offensive policy, and recognises the possibility of Rissia and Britain gradually paving the way to an understanding respecting Asiatic interests and to disallow the forward policy in Persia except in connection with furthering trade. Washingt on, Y< stei day. Mr Roosevelt received a remarkable ovation on his return to America. Tokio, yesterday. Twenty-seven army storehouses at Hiroshima have been burned. The damage is one million sterling. In cendiarism is suspected. The Japanese winter has set in at Alexandra and Uvsk. Snow and heavy gales render it impossible to withdraw the troops. Sr Petersburg, Yesterday A fresh discovery of arms was made on an island off the Finnish coast.

M. de Witte visited the Czar aboard the Imperial yacht in the Finnish Archipelago, The Czar thanked him for so brilliantly executing the mandate, which was of. the utmost importance to the state, and overwhelmed him with marks of favour, also creating him a Count. Berlin, Yesterday. The strike is expected to collapse within a fortnight owing to want of funds. New York, Yesterday. A wouiiin at Cambridge, Illinois, killed h.r sev'-u children w th an axe, then lai 1 the bodies in bed soaked in oil, set fire to them, cut herown throat and then jumped into the flames. The husbaud: committed suicide later. Paris, Yes'erday, France, on behalf of Russia protested against Japan sentencing Russian prisoners to- imprisonment as criminals for attempting (o escape ; attempts being treated by Russia as a disciplinary offence.