CABLE NEWS.
(by electric telegraph-- copyright;) ". ! (BPFOIAL TO UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London) October $' .''. One hundred tend ra were received fqr the City of Melbourne, loa^ of £200>000. The total amount; tendered 10r.. , was £350^000, the average, price . bang a,bout 4100' 10s. , ,, , / The enquiry into, the sinking of, ihe, Austral was contiaued pa Friday, wheo evidence was take% r ;i'hat thecaptpin justified: his employing ballast I»nk>, r .and, that be was mistaken m neglecting warnings previous to^he listing during, c jalng. The Court, ia ' t&eir decis on, found that the cap am was censured for leaving tbe deck mjchirge .of Lowman, and found the chief engineer free from wSSae, and tEe Court declined r tb 3eal w th the certificates of th.- master and chief oilie r owing to the pocular circumstances surrounding tne sinking of the vessel, 1 The spectator 'questions if Sydney aad laamania were equa ly earnest; m the exclusou of tue convicts from 1 the Pacific as other/ colon es. The iSpectator r and Stand ird endorse the letter ; of. Mr Murray Smith r^garding the expulsion of the Irish informers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 262, 9 October 1883, Page 2
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183CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 262, 9 October 1883, Page 2
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