AUSTRALIA.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. SYDNEY, January 4. Tho services of Mr Bruntncll, General Secretary of the New South AValos Alliance, havo been secured for a temperance campaign in England. THE PLAGUE. A dairyman at Huratvjlle lies been attacked by the plague. It is evident tliat the case is coimooted with the MerrickviUe outbreak.
COMMONWEALTH'S REVENUE,
MELBOURNE, January 4. Tho Federal revenue for tho past half-year was £6,034,683, there being an increase of £1,202,000. A GOOD SURPLUS. Mr Bent states that the half-year ended with a surplus of £260,000. He expecta the surplus at "the end of next year to amount to nearly a million. WALLACE DIVORCE CASE. The petitioner's costs in the Wallace divorce suit, amounted to over £1100. YACHTING FATALITY. A yacht capsized at Port Phillip, and two girls named Raisbeck and Williams were drowned. The other occupant, a youth named Slater, was rescued, after swimming a mile and a half.
CABLE NEWS.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13005, 6 January 1908, Page 7
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