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: BRISBANE BRIBERY CASE. - - ACCUSED CONVICTED. Plena AisojiaUon—By Telegraph— Copyright BRISBANE, September 29. Sleeman and Connolly were found guilty, with' a' strong recommendation to mercy on the/ground of great encouragement and the fact that a bait was held out to them as a trap., ... (Received Sept. 29, at 10:20 p.m.) ■ Sleeman and Connolly were each sentenced to three months’ imprisonment without hard labour, and fined £SOO, in default nine months’ imprisonment. . TENDER, FOE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES, , MELBOURNE, September 29.. The City Council rejected a tender for Swiss electricity, meters at £1 7s Bd, on the grounds that if was feared that they were of German manufacture. A local tender at £1 13s 4d was accepted. FEDERAL POLITBGS. MR HUGHES CRITICISED. MELBOURNE. September 29. Dr Earle Page made the following reply to. Mr Hughes’s offer:—“l do not see any possibility of satisfactory co-operation, with a political opportunist like Mr Huges,. whose policy is , continually changing like a chamelon, and whose outlook on national finance is apparently hopeless.” COMMONWEALTH SHIPPING LINE, MELBOURNE, September 29. In the House of Representatives, Mr Hughes gave, notice of a Bill to place the Comhionwcalth Shipping Line under independent control.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18673, 30 September 1922, Page 8
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