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Patea Mail, 21 August 1882, Page 3

Wolf-hunting in France is being followed up by experienced hunters. For a wolf that has attacked a human being, £8 is allowed by Government ; one that has not, £4 ; she wolves, £6 ; while a cub fetches 31s.

A man in Georgia, sentenced to be hung for murdering a policeman, objected to the date, as it was the same as that set apart for the hanging of Guiteau. The considerate judge alterpd it to a day earlier.

In 1881 the emigration from Ireland was less by 17,138 than the previous year

The fear of the libel law does not intimidate Victorian editors. The other day an article was published in Geelong, in which an aspirant to political honors named Jones got roughly handled. It was concluded thus : “ His political infamy stood recorded in black capital letters in the history of the country, that bis only qnalideations for politics were a glib tongue, a brazen presence, unblushing lying, and glaring falsification of facts ; and the paper “ know of no member in the House who would introduce him to the Speaker, were he returned.”

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