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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 1278, 27 November 1903, Page 5

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[ United Press Association —Copyright. MELBOURNE, November 26. The Commonwealth revenue for the first three "weeks of November was £60,000 less than for the same period of last year, and there aid indications !of the shrinkage continuing. The Sandhurst Cup was won by Nimbus by a length and a half, Avalou and Rhapsody a. dead heat for second place. Eleven started. Betting: sto 1 against War Chief, 10 to 1 Nimbus. Time>, 2m in. 14isec. Carpenters fitting the steamers Clitus and Gracchus for the carriage of horses to India struck, owing to some of the | coloured crews* assisting in a portion of the work. A New Caledonia official has identified three of the seven men picked up by the Cromarty as tieket-of-leave escapees. HOBART, November 26. The Assembly rejected the Compulsory Canciliation and Arbitration Bill by 15 to 8. i ; SYDNEY, November 26. ! Parliament is clearing up business prior to ending the session. The Loan Appropriation and Federal Election Machinery Bills passed. Negotiations between the masters and the Engineers' Association and the ferry steamers and tug proprietors, with reference to the new agreement, are deadlocked and have been referred to the Arbitration Court. The firemen and deck hands have also referred their claims to the Court. A man named Day was found shot at , Granville. His wife has been committed ! for trial on suspicion of murdering him. The recrudescence of fire in the old workings of the East Greta Colliery is interfering with the work. Several men have been overcome by carbonic fumes The new Japanese Consrl has arrived. He says Japan intends to hold Russia to the promise to evacuate Manchuria even at the risk of war. The "Young. Jap" party are anxious for war, and they are not afraid.