WELLINGTON.
This day. McDonald, who was sentenced some 18 months ago to three years' imprisonment for obstructing the crossing of a bridge near Palmerston, by shooting one of the horses of Young's stage coach, has received the Governor's pardon and was released this morning. Thursday. The Luua returned this afternoon from her surveying expedition, having been absent just two days. A line for the new cable across Cook Straits has been surveyed, and thoroughly sounded, a little to tliß southward of the present one, the sliore-eud being about four miles south of
Sinclair Head. The nature of the bottom which varies greatly, has been carefully ascertained, and the variation in the differcnt^ p«rts of the line has been thoroughly marked out, so that the cable may be constructed accordingly.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2128, 29 October 1875, Page 2
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129WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2128, 29 October 1875, Page 2
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