CABLE BREVITIES.
"The Irishman," t\ London paper, has. been suppressed for publishing a seditious article.
The bursting1 of a dam in Austin, the capital of Texas, released miles of water sixty feet deep. Forty persons were drowned.
Bernard Abrahams, a London solicitor, and Alfred Paget, company promoter, received six and three months respectively, for conspiring with others to obtain a certificate of naturalisation by false, pretences.
From the Ist May, in consequence of having accepted the Eastern Extension Company's Cape cable proposals. South Australia and Westrail a benefit by a reduction in rates.
Lover!tig and Johnson, two men undergoing sentence in Victoria for attempted train wrecking", have been sentenced to three years imprisonment for- the Nicholson-street bomb outrage, making' ten years in all.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 83, 10 April 1900, Page 5
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