CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.
Under Goldsbrough and Co.'a scheme, debentures are to be divided equally—one million and a-half pounds at 4 per cent., and one million and a-quarter pounds at 3 per cent, irredeemable. If shareholders pay £2 each' share they extinguish future liability and obtain preference shares. Fifty thousand pounds of the capital of the new Hauraki Gold Mining Company has been subscribed in England. Sir Thomas Wilde is dead.
The bodies of the eight men entombed in the El Dorado mine, Victoria, have been recovered. Mr Alison Smith has given notice to appeal for a new trial of his action against the 'Age;' Two young men named Stainsbury and Campbell, arrested on a charge of being connected with incendiary fires in Warrnambool, have confessed. The steamer Argus, which went ashore on a reef near Somerset, has been floated off with only a little damage. Kelly, who was arrested on a charge of poisoning a number of aboriginals at Fernmount (N.S. W.) by giving them a decoction which he believed to be rum, has been acquitted. The judge held that so far as intention went Kelly was innocent.
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Evening Star, Issue 9775, 3 August 1895, Page 2
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187CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS. Evening Star, Issue 9775, 3 August 1895, Page 2
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