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STOOK AT HOBART.. ' liy Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Ilobart, July 31. Tasmania- usually imports cattle in the winter, tout this year, owing to theheavy export to Victoria., a meat famine prevails. At recent sales steers touched £I» IDs, bullocks £3l 2s lid, heifers £11! Os, wethers 51s, ewes 37 s, and humbs i 2.5s fid. the highest prices recorded for [■years.. AKiROI'UANI-; FOR TASMANIA. | 1 fob-art, July 31. The Assembly voted £ISOO for tilepurchase of an airship. ' TOMLNI'ONIS COMMISSION. j Melbourne. July 31. Hie Federal Government is withdrawing ,its representative from the Dominions Royal Commission because it thinks the Commission has not justified its existence.. JUSTICE -DONE. -Xew York, July ,'!0. Poliie-'Lieuteivant 'Becker was "electroeuted for the murder of Rosenthal in 1912. lie protested his innocence to the last. (Rosenthal kept a gambling den and was blackmailed by the .police. When he refused to continue his payments and threatened to reveal the conduct of the .police IHedcer had him murdered.,l
A WOMAN JI'STICK. Adelaide. July :Hl. 'M.'s. Power, one of the recentlychosen women justices, sat on the bench for the 'lirst time. It is the iiist occasion in .tile history of the .Empire that the ibeiidi ha:s ibeen otcupied by a woman. MI'IiDKRF.R'iS LIFE STORY. London, .Tnlv "D. Ihe Evening Xews ipii'blishes a remarkalble life story of Smith, who has been sentenced to death for the -der of three of kis wives. He was 1)oni in 18T2 and wus lad -from boyhood. Ifis mother often said that ho would die in hi- boots. He wan sent to a reformatory for stealing when sixteen, and was sentenced to six months' hard la'bor in I SHI. Later he poseil as a music-ball song writer, and-preyed u-pou women for twenty years, first living with a series of women whom he emiployed to help h'f.i in dealing, flic usually got them into domestic service by means of his out, false recommendation as their late employer. lie and the women then absconded with the plunder, and constantly changed ,their names and address, 'l'iie police (found clues to his crimes in Yorty towns. Once or twice women were vaught anil imprisoned, but Smith usually escaped. Once, he was imprisoned for two years for robbery at Hastings. The arrest was due to 'Beatrice Tliornhill, whom .lie had married under the name of Love at Leicester, avenging his desertion of her "by giving him into custody, as he was wanted (by the police. it was then found that Smith had prompted a bog'tis servant to rob a clergyman's ' house at 'Hastings. .Sin it ll married seven 'Women, four of whom had known him less than a inontli. and murdered ifiie of them. K;wh had monc\.
J AI'AXKSE (u'VBIXKT RKSIfiXS. 'lleceived July 'SI. 5.5 p.m. Tokio, duly ,'KI, Arising from the recent election, bribery charges wore brought' against Mura, the Minister for Home Affairs. Okuma's Cabinet has therefore resigned. *
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