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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. By Cable—.Pross Association—Copyright. Copenhagen, March 20. Tlic Folkething is renewing the law passed in 1905 abolishing the infliction of corporal punishment on criminals. FATAL MINING EXPLOSION. New York, March 20. I 1 ive men were killed by an explosion at a mine owned by the Missouri-Kan-] sas-Texas railway. OVERCOME BY FUMES. New York, March 20. At a: fire at a refrigerator plant at Pittsburg thirty firemen were overcome by ammonia fumes. FOREIGN MEAT. London, March 20. Mr. W. Field. National member for St. Patrick's. Dublin, has introduced a Bill into the House of Commons providing that sellers in Ireland of meat killed outside Great Britain must deliver to purchasers invoices to that effect. JIN APPEAL CASE. London, March 20. The Court of Appeal has decided in ' favor of Sir John Benn in the case in which the Stud Tramway Co. was awarded £12,000 damages. The Appeal Court held that the attack was on the system and not personal. Notice of appeal was given. THE RUSSIAN FRANCHISE. St. Petersburg, March 20. The Czar has refused to accept the resignation of M. Stolypin, President of the Council, owing to the Council of Empire rejecting the Electoral Bill, which, by dividing the constituencies according to nationalities, was intended to transfer power in the Zemstove of the western provinces from Poles to Russians. AN INGENIOUS BRAND. Berlin, March ?0. Dr. Icard has invented a method of branding criminals by means of a paraffin injection causing a slight lump lasting during the lifetime without injuring the health.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 268, 22 March 1911, Page 2
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