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SYDNEY, Nov. 24
Sir Arthur Renwick, a leading medico-, ex-Minister of Mines and Education, aged 72, is dead.
RAINS IN NEW SOUTH WALES
Good raonsoonal rains, ranging up to three inches, over the greater part of the State, will greatly benefit the crops.
GERMANY AND NEW CALEDONIA
The German Consul-General characterises the suggestion that Germany might bo glad to annex New Caledonia as a senseless, anti-German utterance. Germany has all the territory slio wants in the South Seas. She has no more notion of attempting to acquire New Caledonia than France has of making her a present of it. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS. MELBOURNE, Nov. 24. Judge Murray has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor, and Mr. Stainforth Smith Administrator of Papua. Mr. Justice Hood has been appointed Royal Commissioner do inquire into the methods of insurance companies. A WEST AUSTRALIAN ELECTION. PERTH, Nov. 24. Mr. Gregory, Minister for Mines, defeated Mr. Buzzaeott (Labor) for Menzies by - 52 votes. A METEORITE. ADELAIDE, Nov. 24. A meteorite weighing forty pounds was found at Altunga at a depth of five feet. IRRIGATION OF QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, Nov. 24. Mr. Kidstou proposes a hold, scheme of water conservation and irrigation, probably involving an outlay of several millions.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2357, 25 November 1908, Page 5
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205AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2357, 25 November 1908, Page 5
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