GENERAL CABLES.
SYDNEY, August 18. By a fire in a dwelling at Dungog, 166 miles north, of Sydney, an. old man named Mitchell and his wife, aged 93 and 84 respectively, were burned l to -death.. Their son was also badly burned. MELBOURNE, August 18. The steamer Venetia has cleared the Customs with 30,000 bags oats and 26,000 bales of hay for Wei-hai-wei, the British station on the Gulf of Pe-chi-li; China. The '"trial. of, the divorce • suit L’ditlT Wilkie- v. Adam Wilkie has begun. Re r spondent is the well-known railway contractor, . and' formerly lived at Fordell, near Wanganui. ' . • , , ADELAIDE, August 18. A boiler explosion took place in a flour min at Endunda,, seventy miles north-east 6f this city. The engineer, a man named Charmston, was killed, and the railway line in the vicinity was torn up. (Received August 19, 5 p.m-) SYDNEY, August 10 The man Cullen, alias Reynolds, who was arrested here on, a- charge of larceny in Auckland, has been remanded to New Zealand- j
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4131, 20 August 1900, Page 5
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169GENERAL CABLES. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4131, 20 August 1900, Page 5
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