LATE CABLE NEWS.
[By Tblbqbaph.] [Per s.s. City of Sydney, at Auokland.] LONDON, January 22. Hanlan, the champion sculler, who reoently arrived from New York, has been accorded a warm reception. A banquet was given in his honor at the Westminster Aquarium, on whioh occasion General Goodlake, who occupied the chair, delivered a speech, in the course of whioh he welcomed Hanlan and other oolonial sportsmen to England, whether as visitors or otherwise. January 24. The entire shipment of meat by the Europa has been disposed of. The average prioe realised was 5J i per lb. Count Loubanoff, the Busaian Ambassador in London, has declined to transmit a memorial wbioh has been drawn up for presentation to the Czar, asking him to intercede on behalf of the persecuted Jews in Southern Bussia, notwithstanding the fact that the memorial was signed by Baron Pothsohild. Two of a band of Fenians know as the
"Captain Moonlight Gang," who were recently arrested for seditious acts, and upon whom a number of seditious documents were fonnd, have been sentenced at the Cork Assizes to seven years' penal 'servitude. Oonnall, one of the principal conspirators, turned Queen's evidence, and stated that he had reoeived instructions and money from Dublin to oarry on an organised system of Fenianism.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2441, 1 February 1882, Page 3
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212LATE CABLE NEWS. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2441, 1 February 1882, Page 3
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