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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42790, 12 October 1905, Page 3

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London, Yesterday. Scotch steelmakers are booked ahead for some months. Steel has again advanced l()s making the rise 20s in a fortnight. There is an unprecedented inquiry for steel. The Daily Express states that Mr Alfred Harmsworth is the principle defendant in a lawsuit which is ex-, pected to involve half-a- million sterling. The plaintiffs, Captain Alexander Beaumont and his wife, allege, that they were induced to transfer certain shares in the paper Answers ” for a bond, the real v.’lue of the shares being concealed. New York, Yesterday. Inquiry elicited the fact that the New York Mutual Life Company contributed to the Republican campaign funds 15‘000 dollars in 1896, 3,500 dollars in 1900, and 4,000 dollars in 1904.

Mr Coghlan issued a sta‘em9nt de fioing the agent s-generals’ attitude towards General Booth- Mr C ighlan, a fortnight ago informed Colonel Taylor who called on General Booth’s behalf, that he was not officially aware how the proposals would be received in Australia, and that when officially instructed he would communicate. General Bo >ih meanwhile suggested the maturing of his scheme ready for discussiou should the Agents-General be instructed to co-operate. Mr lan assured Mr Taylor of great sympathy wiih the immigration scheme from some Australian people. Besides this official statement several AgentsGeneral subsequently expressed to Mr Taylor their individual opinion that the existing system of nominating passages should be utilised for the small experiment under the Salvation Army auspices. Mr Dobson, Tasmania, urged that a paramount necessity was careful selection.

Stockholm, Yesterday. The Storthing, by 191 to 16 adopted the Karlstad convention. St Petersburg, Yesterday: Semi-official advices from Askhabad state that Russia will shortly .undeiv take the construction of a duplicate strategic railway from Morv toKushk. Capetown, Yesterday. Three Transvaalers who were armed, were arrested at Sc mit Drift and im prisoned at Kenhart for stealing 200 he; d of cattle which have now been restored to the Hermans. Washington, Yesterday, Mr Roosevelt strongly advises Yale, Havard, and Princetown Universities to modify inter-univei’sities football, eliminating all brutalities. Tokio, yesterday. The Naval review in Tokio Bay on the 15th is expected to be of an imposing character. All European fleets will be represented, also all Japanese ships engaged in the late war, including converted cruisers, transports, and surrendered Russian ships.