LAST NIGHT'S SITTING.
The whole night has been spent in Committee on the Corrupt Practices Bill, the discussion being chiefly on clause 10, and is still proceeding. [Left sitting,] A grand vocal and. instrumental concert and dramatic performance will b.c £iven .it the Public Hall, 1 Cambridge, on'RaCc night, the 22nd inst The project f<o connect by a canal the North Sea with the Baltic is at length about to be qarried into, execution, by an English firm. The' canal will be made between GUoekstadt and Kiel. r It jp reported from Odessa that a merchant vessel has .been attacked and plundered near Batoum by" a •' pirafce ship." It is said, that several of the ..crew were ; killed and w,ounded. t The, ," pirate \ ' ( es'ciiped.' ' ', ,'' ','/ ' OoloneL C. Gt. Gtbrdon, C.8., R.E.— " Chiuese Gordon' 7 rT -^fter a long abssnqe on special- employment, lias -4nal|yi'de- w , cided to return* to niilitary dp!ty underthe ' War Office, and has been 'appointed Commanding Royal Engindei at Mauritius, winch-office,' it is Ms intention to retaiu for the usual period.
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Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1438, 20 September 1881, Page 2
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173LAST NIGHT'S SITTING. Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1438, 20 September 1881, Page 2
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