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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 128, 7 May 1883, Page 2

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PANIC IS A SKORifiT SOCIETY. PICTURE* FOR ADELMDE. THE QUEENSLAND LOAN. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 3. Two huudred persons, m mbers of a [ secret society called the " Patriotic becoming alavmed at the recent disclosures, have left Crosmaghen (? Crosmailina). Four pictures that have been ex* hibited m the Royal Academy have been purchased for the Adelaide National Art Gallery, Tho tenders for the Queensland two and a half million loan will be opened on the 9 th. The natives are invading the territory recently annexed by the British near Liberia, and the English Government have taken steps to resist such inter--1 ference. London, May 4. [ The trial of Laurence Hanlon, for the attempted murder of Field, the juryman in -HyndV -case- m November last, concluded to-day. The jury brought m a verdict of guilty, and Hani n was sentenced to penal servi« tude .or life. Mr Brad laugh was heard at the Bar of the House of Commons, to-day, m support of his application that he 1 should be permitted to take the oath and his seat.. After he had concluded his speech, Sir Stafford Noithcoto moved that Mr Bradlaugh be not allowed to swear. The motion was aiopted, on a <Wi-ion, by 271 to 165.