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News of the Week

THE happiness of Christmas was this year dependent upon a single event. If the King's illness had become more serious all merriment would have been blownout like the flame of a candle ; but most fortunately the doctors had rightly forecast the course of the illness. Both the general and local conditions have slowly but steadily Unproved, and it has not been thought necessary lately to issue more than a single daily bulletin.

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