AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(by electric telegraph.—copyright). Melbourne, August 26. The Chamber of Commerce consider that the recent increase in the cable charges is a mistake on the part of the Colonial Governments. They resolved to wait on the Postmaster-General urging the resumption of the old rate. Mrs O'Brien, who was arresteH on a. charge of murdering a farmer, named Cornwall, at Wamickuabeal, by administering poison has been found guilty and sentenced to death. Pratt, suspected of being an {iccoinplice, was acquitted on the capital charge but convicted of being an accessory after the fact. Hobabt, August 2G. Ministers expect to make retrenchment in tne Civil Service to the extent of £30,000
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3139, 27 August 1892, Page 2
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110AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3139, 27 August 1892, Page 2
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