AUSTKALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3977, 26 March 1900, Page 2

AUST RALIAN TELEGRAMS.

♦■■ ■ THE PLAGUE. Sydney, March 24. — Another case of plague^ that of a man named Haydon," is reported. He worked in Sussex St. . An active crusade is proceeding against dirty, premises; jn the city and suburbs and many have been heavily fined. y A man named Kelly died suddenly at Surrey Hills. It te reported to be a case of plague.: ' The Cabinet sat throughout today considering the plague ' regulations and decided to extend the proclaimed area to Sussex St. The shipping companies and business people are busy moving and men are engaged cleansing. : Most of the residents in the proclaimed districts have beei inoculated. The proclamation will be issued to-night, quarantining the infected area, including Kent St. A cordon of police surround* the area and the residents arc given the option of remaining 01 being removed to the quarantine station. i; ; The whole of the proclaimed plague area is closed to the public, barricades will be erected. The prophylactic serum is beinj rapidly exhausted, ten thousand iloses from India are expected ii about three weeks, and efforts art being made to obtain more fron Pasteurs Institute m Paris. A start is being made to manufacture the serum locally \ but it wil take months to produce. * The Archbishop has issued i special prayer for deliverance frou the plague to be read in th( Anglican churches. A man named Stayes has beei attacked by the plague. Ht worked in Sussex Street, Sydney, March 25 r — Post mortem shows that the supposed cas< of plague in Surrey Hills wai heart disease. A man Jordan, re siding in the infected area ha: been quarantined, he is suspeotet to be suffering from plague. are making house t< house visits in the infected area A number of places are reportec to be very insanitary and : somt unfit for human 'habitatioh. Cleansing operations commenct on Monday. Over 8000 people have beet inoculated ; twb triore cases o: plague are reported, men namec 1 Mills and Hall, both employed at widely divergent points in. George Stroet, One death occurred in q_aran« tine, viz., Haynes. The Premier has decided tc [quarantine any , warehouse where an outbreak of plague occurs. Perth, March 25.— Shipping Companies complain that the regulations for the destruction of rats are seriously interfering? with business. The Federation Bill dispute. Sydney, March 24. — Lyne, in the name of himself and the other Premiers, has cabled Barton's message to Mr Seddon and asks if the apparently unfriendly attitude taken fey Reeves has Mr Seddon's approval. The !Daily Telegraph warmly reseats JReeves's action on the Commonwealth Bill and says that the real iritorest of the thing lies in Mr Seadon wanting amendments allowing States now standing aloof tc* enter on the same terms as the Original State. ' All along we ha v£ been asked to regard New Zealand as definitely standing out.' V Perth, Marc* 24.— The Premier has received a cable from Parker stating thlat he ie not act- j ing in concert wiah Reeves. The StJKiltfa tragedy. Melbourne, Ma)rch 24.— Mrs Fraser has been Acquitted on a ! charge of attempting to murdor her husband, Dr JTrassr, at St Kilda in December, &n the ground that the shooting whs accidental. Death sentence. Melbourne, Marcm 24. — Isabella Downe7 ha» been convicted of the murder of thfe girl Ellen Butler by an illegal operation and the death sentence waa recorded.