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GENERAL NEWS.

Kron from Taranaki Iron Sand..

Assorting to the British Trado` Commissioner în Now" Zmland works are being erected as New Plymouth, in the North Island, by a massily formed company, for producing iron from the Taranaki iron sand. The frus israsco ta; be installed can desi with 70 tons of the sand weekly, but plans have been drawn up for the erection si a later date of another with a weekly capacity of 200 tons of the sand. On the basis of experiment and of sotusi practice, it is claimed that pig iron can be made at a cost not exceeding $3 a ton.

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The North Somerset Liberal Asociation, as a private meeting, adopted a resɔintios, thanking Mr. Jowph "King, M.P., for hus services, but asking him in the interest of the party not to weak re-election. An amendment was proposed requesting him to reign' immediately, but this was with- drawn on Mr. King announcing that he was prepared to sequisens in the resolution, but if the amendment were adopted, he pointed out that he was not oʊm-

pelled to resign, and if he did so he should fight again. A further resolution was adopted instructing the executive committee to select suitable candidates and submit names to the general meeting. Mr. King expressed his willing- asse to support the new candidate.

A Remarkable Escape. ▲ Town in Kent, · March 17.—~ The majority of the inhabitante were surprised to learn when they rose this morning that the town had been bombarded form the sea shortly before 1 o'clock. In the short space of three minutes daring which the town was under fire about nine shells fell, Axo- markable escape was experienced

by the wife of a soldier serving in Egypt, and her baby girl, aged two years. Her home is now practically in rains, and the bad- room in which she and the baby would in the ordinary course of events have been sleeping wi wrecked by the fall of the roof and ceiling, through which a shell rashed. The woman had had a presentiment the previous even- ing, and was eventually perued- ed by her next-door neighbour to spend the night with her. It wAS the first time for 18 months that she had slept away from home. The neighbour's house, though only divided from the wrecked dwelling by a party wall, was andamaged, and the two women and their children cecaped unin jared.

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Sydney, Marob 15-A dramatic incident occurred to-day in the Senate. Mr. Gardiner was charg- Dutch Pro-Ally Editor ing the followers of M: Hughes with deserting the party machine Amsterdam, March 14-Min order to save their places, when: Schroeder, editor of the Telegraaf, Mr. Guthrie rose. Holding a letter was condemned to-day to three which he had just opened, he months imprisonment for an said, "This is why we left. My article, published on June 18, son has been killed in the war' 1915, containing the words. "In Mr. Gardiner offered his sympathy Central Europe there is a group to Mr. Guthrie, who broke down of conscienceless scoundrels” who | and left the Chamber, caused the war.' This case bas been heard fre times, M. Schroeder was at first acquitted, but the case went from Court

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teer regiments were made. Europe" he meant the repre- General Strange rode up and sentatives of Prussian militarism, down the lines, spotting ex The Procureur-General mail that soldiers; and he dismissed two the defendant had previously or three men himself as obviously stated that he meant the Janker nafit for daty. Apparently com Party, and characterised this as patsion drills are to be carried

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