AUSTRALIAN.
(Press Assn. — By Telegraph.— Copyright.)
; (Received May 3, 8.44 a.m.) ■■{ - SYDNEY, May 3. A fierce* south-west gale is raging along the coast.
" A man named Keegan obtained a rule from tlie Full Court on a test claim for compensation for land resumed by tho Government under peculiar circumstances. The applicant was dead m law about 15 years ago: He fell over a precipice and his iujuries, him mentally. He wandered I 'about Australia for fourteen years till a surgical operation restored his faculties. He then found tliat his wjife, believing him to bo dead, remarried, and obtained letters of administration' on his property and accepted compensation from Government for the resumption; of his farm. ' i' ' MELBOURNE, May 3. Tho certificate of the captain i>f the stranded steamer Easby : has been suspended foi* six months. The second mate was severely' censured. '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10962, 3 May 1907, Page 3
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