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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8983, 18 November 1907, Page 5

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BERLIN, "November 15. By a fire in the Baltic shipbuilding yard two gunboats were destroved. LONDON, November 15. The Right Hon. Edmund Robertson, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, in a letter read at the London Chambers of Commerce dinner, said—"Reductions in the naval estimates cannot be maintained. Increases in the future are inevitable, as we are now proceeding with the building of a third Dreadnought, which was suspended during the progress of The Hague Conference. The new Cunard liners will cost an additional £150,000 per annum." LONDON, November 15. Thomas Kerr, caretaker of the Garnstown golf links, was tried for murdering Ellen Piunock, ten years ago. The body was recently found under his cellar, following the revelation of a trance medium named Staples. The jury disagreed, ar.d Kerr was discharged. LONDON, November 15. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's progress is satisfactory. He will be able to travel in two days' time. OTTAWA, November 15. A conference of charitable organisations in Ottawa urge the Dominion and Ontario Governments to prevent the influx of mentally and physically diseased and other undesirables. Canada has of recent years attracted thousands of persons from other countries, but it is pretty generally conceded that many of them are undesirable, on the count of mental or physical deficiencies. NEW YORK, November 15. An official examination disclosed no evidence of fraud in the Knickerbocker Trust books, which are in good order. The losses Of Mr Barney, late president of the trust, totalled one and a half millions sterling. (Mv Charles Barney, until lately president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York, which recently suspended payment, committed suicide.)

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