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LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Per Press Association.]

(Per s.s. Australia, via Auckland.)

London, April 18.

An ugly report is being circulated respecting Shaw's team of English professional cricketers. Two of the Eleven allege that a conspiracy was entered into between ft member of the team and certain Australian bookmakers, by which the Englishmen agreed that they should lose the last match played at Sydney. The report has caused an unpleasant sensation in cricketing circles, as well as throughout the country generally. and the newspapers demand an enquiry into the truth of the allegation.

The editor of the United Ireland newspaper, which was suppressed in consequence of seditious opinions, has now been released from custody, and the newspaper has been issued again. The Intercolotii.il Lonn and Agency Company, which has a branch in Melbourne, 'for the recovery of unclaimed money, has collapsed, and numerous persons have become victims of (he failure. The swindlers havo absconded. The Treasurer's department has instituted criminal proceedings against the responsible persons. Mackenzie, manager of the Manchester branch of the Ccrnpyi-.y, has been arrested. The Theatre at Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg-Schweriii, in Germany, has been totally destroyed by fire. The audience, including the (h;;nd Duke, narrowly escaped. An experimental shipment of grape?, which was forwarded iron Sydney by the Liguria, has proved a failure. The fruit on examination was found worthless.

Much excitement has been occasioned at Windsor by a threat which hus been made to destroy the Barracks by explosion. Another largo meeting o£ unemployed has been held in London, at which resolutions were passed demanding from Government that means should be provided for assisting family emigration to Canada and the Colonies.

April 19

Irish riots have taken place in Cuuliourne, in Cornwall. The rioters desecrated and wrecked the Catholic Church of the town.

Three of the burglars who sometime abaUaiiUsd a quantity of valuable jewellery from the Halton Garden Post Office have been captured at Berlin. They were on the point of proceeding to Russia. The stolen diamonds have been recovered.

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Bibliographic details
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 604, 28 April 1882, Page 2

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LATE CABLE NEWS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 604, 28 April 1882, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 604, 28 April 1882, Page 2

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