YESTERDAY'S CABLES.
A FASTING FEAT. Loxi'ux, March I. Sllcco completed ii forty-live days' last m London. He lost lour stone in weight, finally becoming very weak. Hi' contemplates a further forty days' fast in April.
JAPANESE FAMINE. Mei.iioiiixi:, March 5. The State Government has given oil tons of Hour for the Japanese Famine lJelief. Mr Dcakiu (I'cdcral Premier) has offered his assistance to the Chamber of Commerce in its efforts 10 relieve the distress in/Japan.
•JEWISH IMMIGRANTS. New Yohk, March 4. During the past year 150,000 Jewish immigrants landed iu America, sixty thousand settling in New-York. DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO. New Voek, March i. A tornado travelling at the rate of scvenly-scven miles an hour si ruck the city ot Meridian, Mississippi It ploughed a path six hundred feet wide and a mile long, uprooting commercial buildings, hotels, and railway buildings. Iu the first two minutes twenty-one whiles and over one hundred negroes were killed. The damage is estimated at a million and a half dollars. Torrential rains fortunately extinguished the fires caused.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 6 March 1906, Page 3
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171YESTERDAY'S CABLES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 6 March 1906, Page 3
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