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[R.EUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. TOTAL WRECK OF THE SHIP JOHN DE COSTA. LOSS OF HORSES INTENDED FOR THE INDIAN MARKET. CREW OF THE VESSEL SAVED. THE SIMPSON'S ROAD BANK ROBBERY. SENTENCES ON THE ROBBERS. (Received July 21, 10.30 p.m.) Melbourne, July 21. Telegrams received to-dav report that the ship John de Costa, 1753 tons, Captain Dake.s, which left this port on the 21st June for Calcutta, with a cargo of horses for the Indian market, has been totally wrecked on Thursday Island, and 140 horses were lost. The crew of the vessel were saved. Sailed, the Union Company's steamship Waihora, for the Bluff, this afternpon. The trial of the men implicated in the Simpson's Road bank robbery was
concluded to-day. Millidge, Pollock, and Fortune were each sentenced to six years' penal servitude; and M'Mahon, the driver of the cart, convicted of aiding and abetting, was sentenced to one year's hard labor.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2756, 22 July 1885, Page 2
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