DESTRUCTION OF CARGO AT TIMARU.
The. mild scare, which the. introduction of smallpox into the colony occasioned at Timaru was practically at an end yesterday, no fign of the spre-id of the diseasehaving made its appearand'. In addition to the 105 'Vontact-s," who wore- vaccinated in Timaru on Tuesday, a lew more were operated on yesterday. Tiie Health Department had ordered the destruction, by fire, of 200 bales of sacks, valued at about £900, as a precautionary measure, these bales being some which* had be*n railed from Dunedin with some transhipments from the Gracchtif. Very serious objection wa.s taken in Timaru to this confiscation of property, and the port health officer subsequently received word not to proceed with the burning in the meantime Tho nicks are now standing in trucks in the goods shed at Timaru, and are being detained there.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11589, 21 May 1903, Page 3
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