THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 57, 8 March 1900, Page 5

THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

UNION COMPANY ARRANGE-

MENTS

ADVANCE IN FREIGHTS AND

FARES

DUNEDIN. this day

The Union Company have been advised by the Government that quarantine will be imposed on all steamers arriving in this colony from Sydney or Newcastle, and the Monowai, which arrived in Wellington last night, has been placed in quarantine for ten days. In the meantime, it 13 not proposed to quarantine steamers arriving at Bluff from .Melbourne, but rigid examination will be made, and if it is found that any passengers from Sydney have joined at Melbourne the steamers will be quarantined. As there is at present no case of bubonic plague existing in Sydney, nor any suspicious cases, if there are no further developments within a fortnight it is probable the quarantine restrictions will be removed. In Hie meantime, to fill the gap caused by the detention cf the Monowai the company h'nv'e' arrangod io despatch the Tarawera from Lyttelton to Melbourne. The Maravoa, due at Auckland on Monday will be quarantined, but no arrangement lias beyn made to take up her running. If quarantine restrictions continue the volume will be so curtailed that it will lie necessary for the company to reduce considerably their sailings between New Zealand and Australian ports, and on account of the reduced traffic and.extra expense involved it will be noces-sarv to increase rates of freight and passage to and from both SvdTiey and Melbourne. Increased rates will probably be put into force immediately. Tlip Mokoia loaves Dmipdin 10-day for Sydney, via Cooks Straits, and she must undergo ouarantine ou her return if the restriction is not removed. Fnr the greater convenience of the public the company iv*c making arrangements io Innd passengers and their luggage at Circular Quay. Sydupv or by steam tender if the wharf berth is ' not available, the steamer afterwards preceding t the empany's wn wharf in Margaret-street.