GENERAL CABLES.
DISCONTENTED BOERS Capetown, May 8. The militia reserves at Vryheid, mostly Boers, refused the rifles offered them on the ground that they are obsolete. They are described as secondhand Martini-Henris. London, May 8. Portuguese newspapers assert that a Boer plot has been discovered to seize Mossamedes, Southern Angola, Africa, and establish a republic. HAUL BY BURGLARS. New Yoek, May 8. Burglars blew open Mr Joseph Letter's safe at Chioago and ?tole £20,000 worth of bonds. MURDERED BY A BURGLAR. New Yobk, May 8. A burglar shot Mr Charles Speir, a leading member of the Standard Oil Company, through the heart at his house, Staten Island, in the presence of his wife. AFTER A FORTUNE. London, May 8. Mr Bennett Peterson, now in London, is prosecuting the claim of Thomas William Sheridan, of Adelaide, to a fortune of half a million, left by Helen Blake, who died intestate in 1876. She was a widow of the late General Robert Dudley Blake.
FEMALE SUPERIORITY. Sydney,| May 9. The Federal Minister for Customs (Sir William Lyne) says in the Federal exams, the girls are beating the bo /a by two to one.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8106, 10 May 1906, Page 3
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191GENERAL CABLES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8106, 10 May 1906, Page 3
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