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[per press association] [by electric telegraph— copy itight.] (Received April 15, at 11 50 a m.) Perth, ' April 15. Fox was acquitted for murdering his wife at Claremont. (Received April 15, at 2 10 pm.) Sidney, April 15. Charles Wilson, M H R, for Wellington suburbs, in an interview, after declaring that he was a strong supporter of the Government, said he was firmly of the opinion that the Ministry must be reconstructed. It had a very strong head, but a very weak. He described two members of the Cabinet at least as having such a lamentably but notoriously weak mental and political fibre that their political gyration rendered them a laughing stock to rank and file of the party, whose ■ support on a division . they obtain, but whose personal esteem they fail to possess. The commercial community now possessed confidence in Mr Seddon, which it did not afc one time have, lb now recognised thvfc though Mr Seddon is a Democrat he is extremely cautious as to sucn branches of his policy as affected the commercial world. In other words, he is not quite the Ultra Radical he used to be. (Received April 17, at 1 35 am.) Brisbane, April 16. The German cruiser Cormorant, from Hong Hong to Samoa, where was to have relieved the Bussard, has arrived here with her masts gone and in an otherwise damaged condition. JEn route she called at German New Guinea and left again on March 23. Next morning she went aground hard and fast on the Whirlwind reef. After six days midnights continuous labor, and cutting away the main and the foremasts and after throwing overboard the steam steering gear, the refrigerating machinery and everything portable except the guns, ammunition, and stores the crew managed to get her off. A number of sheathing planks were destroyed, but the hull is undamagod. She goes to Sydney for repairs, which are expected to take three months. Captain Emsmann^ says that they had a most exciting time, and several times was inclined to abandon the vessel but for the splendid exertions of the officers and crew.
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Grey River Argus, Volume LVII, Issue 10260, 17 April 1899, Page 3
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