To-day’s News.
SYDNEY, April 26 In the Legislative Assembly, McMillan, speaking on motion by Cotton demanding be should retract an allegation of corruption and vote-selling, denied there was anything to withdraw, and said be had nothing to apologise for. Eventually the matter fizzled out. BRISBANE, April 26 John Smith, open air agitator, sentenced to 9 months’ imprisonment, at Rockhampton, for seditious language. In the course of his speech be referred to ‘ that sourkrouted old brat, the Queen,' and asserted if he had his way he would blow her skyhigh. Wragge has advised shipping of heavy weather from between West and South-west-by-Soutb, between Cape Howe and Hobart, and southern half of New Zealand. He gives the warning as a necessity of special caution, owing to dangerous Antarctic disturbances in latitude 50 degrees, South, longitude 170. This, Wragge considers, will cause very rough water on Tasman Sea in next few days. A pearling cutter, with the owner and 8 coloured crew, has disappeared. It is supposed she foundered during storm at Claremont Island, which caused wreck of Clara Ethel.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 733, 27 April 1894, Page 5
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177To-day’s News. Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 733, 27 April 1894, Page 5
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