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The death is announced In Sydney of ConHul Sahl.
Tho betiiing on *he University boat race is four to one on Oxford.
Tho New South Wale? Parlinmenb JlO9 boon convened for April 27th.
In the New South Wales Cabinet Mr Thyrrne takes the portfolio of Minister of Asrricuiture, and Mr Dickpnn undertakes the dutioa of Postmaster General.
Ab Brisbane a man named Ollivor has been sentenced to seven years and Watson to two yoara for appropriating trusb funds. Petitions are baing largely signed in the Oranee Free State against the proposed uuion with the Transvaal.
Jtlalil Bey, the Turkish Governor of Sivas, in Asia Minor, hm been dismissed owing to his being implicated in the Tokat masoacre.
Sir John Willoughby, one of the prominent figures in the Jameson raid, sentenced in July laab to tea mentha' imprisonment, has been released.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 76, 2 April 1897, Page 3
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