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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 169, 21 July 1903, Page 3

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BT WLKJTBIO TBLBQBAPH—OOPIBI9FI. MISCELLANEOUS GABLES » —,-— RB FREW ASSOCIATION. Lokdon, July 17, Dr Moorhouse has resigned the Bishopric of Manchester. He vo'mtarily forgoes the allowance of £ISOO per ' annum, leaving bis successor full possession of an income of £4200. ' An Australian oarsman, F. S. Keally ! of Balliol College, won the Wic'gfiel ' sculls, beating A. H. Cloutte of the London Rowing Olub, last year's winner, by lmin 12secs in lOmin 31secs. The expedition under Mr McMillan, an American, which s'arttd to navigate the Blue Nile, has been abandoned, owing to its boats being swamped. New York, July 19. In connection with the alleged c»ses of negro slavery in Montgomery, Ala- a bams, the Gaud Jury's final report 1 states chat the evidence shows atrcci- ( ties exceeding those in Siberia. t Received 20,10.40 p.m. London, July 20. Beater's agency stated some weeks Ago that an American warship hoisted a flag on seven uninhabited islands within the territory of the British North Borneo Company. The official impression is that the warship acted under a misunderstanding. Sir Weetby Perceval, in a letter pub- J -Ushad in the Times, siys the efforts to I increase colonial trade ought to be accompanied by a movement to promote t the emigration of selected farmers. c The cinses for Bishop Mcorhouse's ' resignation were his age, and his suffer- *■ ins from a bronchial affection. Received 20, 11 45 p.m. I Ottawa, July 20. Mr Ayleaworth, a leading Toronto Barrister, has replaced the late Justice Armour on the Alaskan Bmndary * Commission. , London, July 20. { The Canard Steamship Company's ' shareholders will be asked, at a meet- c ing to be held on the 29th, to amend I the articles of association, to as to en- € sore the company remaining essentially British. Received 21,1 a.m. London, July 20. ; Over 100 members of Parliament have joined the Free Trade Union. '