(Special to Press Association.)
London, October 25. It is reported that the Calliope has picked up the crew of H.M.S. Wasp, which it is supposed foundered off Singapore. Mrs Trevanion, a daughter of Sir Daniel Cooper, of New South Wales, has prosecuted her husband for assault by blackening her eyes, and he has been sent to prison for six weeks. The frozen mutton ex s.s. Orient is selling at 3^d per lb. The report that the Chinese Government had withdrawn the concessions granted to the American syndicate for the construction of railways, &c, is denied, and it is stated that the agreement was signed on October 12.
The survey of a line of railway to Yladivostock, the Russian Pacific naval station, will be commenced immediately.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1875, 28 October 1887, Page 21
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