CABLEGRAMS.
London, August 21. Smith has accepted Slavin’s challenge to fight without gloves, in October. There are now 80,000 dock laborers and stevedores out on strike in London. It is officially announced that Mrs Maybrick has been reprieved, and the sentence commuted to penal servitude for life. Dock men, who are now receiving 5d per hour, demand 6d. The difficulties regarding the proposed railway over Simpton Pass have been arranged, and it is believed the line will shortly be constructed. When the Irish Sunday Closing Bill came on for its third reading in the House of Commons, it was abandoned owing to the pressure of other business, and the advanced state of the Session. Paris, Aug. 21. All the officers in the French army, known to be followers of Boulanger, have been cashiered.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 342, 24 August 1889, Page 3
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133CABLEGRAMS. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 342, 24 August 1889, Page 3
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