CABLE TELEGRAMS.
London, Septembers. Sir George Berkeley has been appointed to the governorship of Western Australia, as successor to Governor Weld, appointed to Tasmania.
September 5. The Austrian Arctic Polar explorers have arrived at Norway, after abandoning the expedition. Tegettoff reports travelling in sledges over mountain ridges beyond latitude 80 degrees. The Great Eastern has completed laying the new Atlantic cable.
_ The Marquis of Ripon has adopted Catholicism, and has resigned the Grand Mastership of the Freemasons. At the wool sales 116,000 bales were sold principally to the Home trade. Tone of the market is now weaker. Balme and Co., wool-brokers, report of the series that wool has advanced. Superior scoured fleece is Id lower; scoured, Ud to 2d; washed half-bred, Id merino, |-d.
New York, September 1. The committee having investigated the charges preferred by Theodore Tilton against the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of Plymouth Church, acquitted Beecher.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 260, 22 September 1874, Page 3
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150CABLE TELEGRAMS. Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 260, 22 September 1874, Page 3
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