QUEENSLAND.
(Received August SO, 18.80 a.«U Brisbane, Monday. M. Leon Perrett, a Russian, has been detained and hia effects seized under tha Safety Defences Act on suspicion of Us being a spy. He was observed taking photographs of the fortifications in Town* villa. The Government are awaiting * report on the nubieot and the result of aa examination of M, Perrett's effects. In the meantime he has appealed to Sir Samuel Griffith, the Premier, olalmlng to j be a mining expert, and that be is pres> paring a report to tbe Russian Govern* ment on the mining industry In Australia.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 9144, 30 August 1892, Page 2
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99QUEENSLAND. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 9144, 30 August 1892, Page 2
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