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EIGHTEEN GIRLS DROWN KD. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Vienna, October 4. Eighteen girls were drowned in the 'river Aluta while bathing at midnight, under the old-time Mief that thus they would get husliands before the end of I the yoiir. The strong current carried [ them away. THE COLONIAL OFFICE. London. October 4. The Colonial Offiee is being reorganised owing ,to the resignation of his post by Sir C. P. Lucas. His .position will not be filled. ALLEGED FALSE PROSPECTUS. London. October 4. Carpenter, of the Charing Cross Rank, which irecently went into liquidation, was committed for trial on a charge of obtaining £SOO by means of a fake prospectus issued two days before his bankruptcy. A SENTRY ATTACKED. London. October 4. Two persons, including a foreigner. after a desperate struggle with a sentry at Fort Amherst, . adjacent to the powder magazine at Chatham, escaped and l have not yet been traced. END OF THE PA PA NTT. St. Helena, October 4. The Pajpnnui has been scuttled and entirely burnt, and the whole of the cargo lost. DUTCH STEAMER BURNED. Batavia. October 4. \ The Dutch steamer Ixion has been burned near Engano. A boat containing 25 persons is missing. RELIGIOUS RIOTS IN POLAND. St. Petersburg. October 4. lAs the outcome of religious strife there was two hours' rioting at Rokitno. j Poland, between a thousand Catholics and those antagonistic. Forty were injured, several of whom subsequently died. A "HEROINE'S" SUICIDE. | Berlin October 4. j Helenc von Donnige?, the heroine of George Meredith's book "The Tragic Comedians," committed suicide at Munich by taking choral hydrate after the death of her third husband. Baron Schewitch. A NEW COMET. Sydney, October .">. The Observatory has received a cablegram from Kiel. Oermanv. notifying the discovery of a new bright comet.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 90, 6 October 1911, Page 2
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295GENERAL CABLES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 90, 6 October 1911, Page 2
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