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An influenza epidemic is raging in New Soik. A miserly Englishwoman, named Coen, has bequeathed £88,500 to the London City Mission. The Indian Government has presented the King of Siam with the cremated bones of Prince Gautama Siddartha, the founder of Buddhism. The remains were discovered at Nepaul, where Buddha is supposed to have died in 543 B.c. The Merv railway has been completed to Khusk, within 95 miles of Herat. The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company will open a refrigerating store at Manchester in January. In the South Australian Legislative Assembly, the Premier intimated that a referendum would be necessary for the fresh Federal proposals. Sir Henry Hawkins, one of the Justices of the Queen’s Bench, has resigned. Lord Napier and Ettrick is dead, aged 79. Heine, an artist, has been sentenced to six mouths’ imprisonment for caricaturing the German Emperor.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 373, 22 December 1898, Page 3
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144CABLE SUMMARY. Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 373, 22 December 1898, Page 3
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