AUSTRALIAN CALLUS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 102, 9 May 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CALLUS.

By Telegraph- -Press Association—Copyright Sydney, May B.' The import market is busy. A large anti speculative business is doing in commodities likely to be affected by tlie Federal tariff. Tlie Full Court refused Billie Harlow’s appeal against flic verdict in the libel action recently brought by her against the Bulletin. A third small-pox ease has broken out. I.ang, a member of the N’ew South Wales; Contingent, contracted the disease aboard tb' Clnugtu. The ease is very mild. Melbourne, May 8. To-day's functions were of a social character. !loyally attended a large reception given by the State Government. The Governor-General holds a brilliant recep- | tion this evening. It was anticipated that j a number of Australians who had titles i conferred on them ILG year would have j been invested with their orders at the leveu yesterday, hut the ceremony was postponed owing to a cable received that , other honors are to be conferred, and that there should lie one investiture. I Irisbanc, May 8. I Mrs Clifford, of Petrie Terrace, lias been alilicted with the plague. Notification has been received that a ease of plague has occurred at Honolulu. Vessels arriving thence will he disinfected. Tlie State Treasurer denies a statement which appeared in the Australian Review of .Reviews that the last million loan was U’activally all taken by the Queensland, National and Savings Ranks. Ito says nearly tlie whole was allotted to private trailers, ihc greater proportion of whom rept'i wilted the Southern States.