EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN NEWS.
(Per 'Frisco Mail at Auckland.) Among tho items of news to hand by tho San Francisco mail are the follow-
ing : — RANSOM OF CAPTIVES. The Porto lias just paid 415,000 (Turkish) for tho release of a French engineer and his wife, who were captured by Turkish brigands. A soldier who tried to defend tho couple at the time of their capture was shot, and now Norgaki, the chief of the brigands, has sent ,£SOO to the soldier's widow.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9838, 2 September 1899, Page 1
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82EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN NEWS. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9838, 2 September 1899, Page 1
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