SYDNEY.
Arrived : Hero, from Auckland. Lester has confessed to participation in Walker's murder, but denies being accessory to that of Bridges. Information bas 1 een received by the Government that Nicholls asked a convict to join him in the purchase of a yacht when they were to commit systematic murders and carry the bodies outside the Heads. Steward bas been arrested for the murder of his wife at Cobbera. Wool sales firm. It is reported that the native police of Queensland had killed 93 blacks. The Northumberland experienced heavy weather on the coast, and lost sails and bulwarks. At the races the Trial Stakes were won by Knipton, 1 ; Ambassador, 2. Cumberland • Whiifler, 1; Warrior, 2. Leger : Hamlet, 1; Javelin 2.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 84, 8 April 1872, Page 2
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121SYDNEY. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 84, 8 April 1872, Page 2
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