Nearly a million, sheep, and la,m.bs ; were imported into the United King-, dom during the year 1871. Notices are published by three- rival; companies in England {or spanning the river Severn by a bridge a mile long. One company proposes to extend the line from the Forest of Bean Coalfields,. Southampton, at a cost of two millions,. An English paper records that two, ruffians, recently convicted of roUbery with violence, were soundly flogged; in Newgate on lSov. 18. As Gal craft was the operator, their friends at large, need not console themselves that the lash was applied delicately. At the close of "the entertainment" Mr Sheriff Bennett expressed a hope that the matter would be made public, as he thought that such a punishment- was very salutary lor offences accompanied by vio-. lence.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1254, 21 February 1872, Page 2
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133Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1254, 21 February 1872, Page 2
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