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Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 25, 19 April 1912, Page 5

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Assn—By telegraph—Copyright (Received April 19, v a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. It is reported that a French settler and his wife have - been murdered at South Malekula. No details are to band. (Received April 19, 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The effects of the British coal strike are being felt in Sydney. Fifty boilermakers have been dismissed from the Government dockyards owing to the absence of sufficient iron of the character required for the work. The crime wave continues. Two women were held up by a masked man at Rockdale, and there has been many instances of audacious bag and purse snatching and house-breaking. PERTH, This Day. The third political libel action against the Kalgoorlie Miner, arising out of an article entitled "Three Rotto'n Sticks," referring to three Ministers, has concluded. Connolly (ex-Colonial Secretary) was awarded £250.