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Indian Fund. London, Deo, 4-The Jato Importers Association has sub scribed £2,500 to the Indian Fund and members and friends a farther 6750. Messrs. Ralli have given $100. The Committee is sending quantities of fruit from Covent Garden to convalescents and has forwarded during the Ines fortnight 650 bsles of com- Another forts and clothing. similar consignment is being sent abortly..
Connubial Bliss,
New York, November 21.-The Princess Kaita Khan, formerly Miss Celia Cadman of San Diego, Cal., went aboard the Faber liner Sant' Ana head first to-day. Entwined in her bair were the einewy hands of hor lord and master, Kaita Kban, Pathap prince of one of the Northern Indian bill tribes whom she con- verted to Caristianity while missionary in ladia three. years ago and married six weeks ago in France. Kaita Khan's exhibition of the way Pathan princes treat their wives came when the "Princess
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and Knita Khan took her to the steoroge.
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rai bowler, who figured in and American Wars trade has not cket matches in the nineties. only developed enormously, bot Katipunan flags were also captar-1915. was for some time on the staff has become largely international, 1, and ccording to the Cable Apply the late Maharaj th of Patiala and is now carried on by oor news American, a number of and formed one of the strongest porate bodies. But the building commissions alleged to have been up of case law is a dilatory and signed by one Artemio Ricarte
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