AUSTRALIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12704, 12 March 1904, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

MEDICAL COMMISSIONS. (Received March 12, 1.3 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Friday. The Federal Government has received a despatch stating that during the next three years two commissions for doctors in the Navy will be allotted to Australia each year and one to New Zealand each alternate year. Candidates will be selected by the GovernorGeneral and the Governor of New Zealand respectively. They must bo registered practitioners and have undergone a course of training at Haslar.

PLAGUE. (Received March 12, 1.3 a.m.) BRISBANE, Friday. As a precaution against the plague the Government has prohibited the landing of New South Wales fodder, grain and other produce, excepting fruit, green vegetables, shipped or transhipped at Sydney. A similar prohibition has been in operation at Sydney against Queensland produce for a considerable time, and was strongly resented. SYDNEY, Friday. The president of the Board of Health is of opinion that the plague has been reintroduced into New South Wales by the medium of Queensland produce.

MINE ROBBERY. KALGOORLIE, Friday. A robbery similar to that at the Croesus South mine has been committed at Hannan’s North mine. The caretaker was discovered hound and gagged. He stated that three masked and armed men, after securing him, broke into the extraction house and stoic £l5O worth of slimes. BIBLE - IN - SCHOOLS. ADELAIDE, Friday. The State Governor (Sir G. Le Hunte), presiding at the centenary meeting of the Bible Society, said they had a federated Australia on several

questions; could they not federate in defence of their religion. The hope had been expressed that he would stay a long while. Ho could assure the meeting that if he could only stay long enougli to see them demand to get back tho Bible in schools it would please him best of all.

ENGLISH CRICKETERS. MELBOURNE, Friday. The English cricketers were entertained prior to their departure for Adelaide. Warner, replying to the praises of his team, said they felt they had done something out of the common in defeating such splendid cricketers. He hoped that before the next test matches were played certain little matters of custom and etiquette would be embodied in tho rules. He trusted that it would not be the last time he would visit Australia.

SHIPPING. SYDNEY, Friday, Arrived, 5.30 p.m.—Waikare. NEWCASTLE, Friday, Sailed.—Komona for Lyttelton.