A despatch from Berlin states that the enormous number of 16,000 French prisoners have died in captivity, either from wounds or disease. The number has been verified by returns made to the English Embassy. It has been ascertained that the explosion of the cartridge factory, in the line Rapp, Paris, which cost more than one hundred lives, was occasioned by a drunken National Guard. In the factory smoking was habitual ; matches were lighted, used, and thrown on the floor. A Victorian paper says : —Our paternal Government sold a poor widow's laud in the neighborhood of Geelong, the other day, for non-compliance with tho Thistle Act. That same paternal Government allows tuistios to grow on its own lands and reserves until they become large enough to tether a horse to.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1079, 27 July 1871, Page 2
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129Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1079, 27 July 1871, Page 2
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