AUSTRALIAN. (REUTERS— PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. )
SydNjßT, Jan. 20. Tlio Wantabadgery bushrangers, Scott (alias Moonlight) and Rogan, wore executed to-day. The sentence of death was carried out privately, tho pros 3 and public being excluded. Scott's confession and autobiography have beon sont to Oanon Rich It is expected they may form the subject of enquiry into the Egerton bank robbery. They are said to implicato others of conspiracy. Trickett has announced his intention to proceed to England to row Ilanlon, the Canadian sculler. Cooktown, Jan. 20. Tho Eastern mail steamer Somorsot has arrived from Singapore and Hong Kong with tho Torres Straits mails. Tho latest news from the East states that a serious cattle plague is raging round Shanghai. A violent shock of earthquake has been experienced at Yokohama, and a number of buildings havo beon destroyed or injured.
The French Chambers have appointed a committee t_o inquiro into the disciplinary punishment in Now Calecjonia,
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North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2403, 21 January 1880, Page 2
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154AUSTRALIAN. (REUTER'S— PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2403, 21 January 1880, Page 2
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