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(RKUIEKS SPECIAL TO PRESS AQBNGYJ , Sydney, Wednesday. In Queensland the body of a line repairer has been found, in the bush of the Northern district. It is supposed that he .had wandered away from the track and perished from thirst. He had walked round in a circle within a hundred yards of a track leading to a waterhole. At Murrurundi yesterday a supposed burglar named O'Brien was chased by a young man named Cohen. Cohen was stabbed, but he choked O’Brien, who died. It it understood that the Government have received a communication from the Superintendent of Telegraphs, now in England, that from information obtained it is improbable the American Government will subsidise the cable between America and Australia.
Another body—that of an old man—has been found in the schooner Atlantic, capsized in the recent gale. Melbourne, Wednesday
The,cutter Lodia is starting for New Guinea and islands of the Pacific, to open up trade under the auspices of an English company. The Arawata arrived yesterday.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4848, 5 October 1876, Page 2
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168LATEST CABLE NEWS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4848, 5 October 1876, Page 2
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