AUSTRALIA.
[Per Press Association.] THE TICK PEST. BRISBANE, March 24. * The Stock Commissioners have decided to ask the Home Secretary to secure the services of Professor Koch to investigate the tick plague. Other colonies are to he asked to contribute towards the expense. NORFOLK ISLAND. SYDNEY, March 24. The Executive has appointed the Minister of Lands to carry out the Executive work in connection with Norfolk Island. OBITUARY. Canon Kemmis, for many years a prominent figure in the Anglican Church, is dead. THE TROUBLE AT RAIATEA. Latest advices received at Noumea are that the war at Raiatea Island is ended, and peace and order have been restored. The French have taken effectual measures to prevent a recurrence of the revolt. The prisoners not are engaged in building roads round the island. THE TROUBLE WITH NATIVES. PERTH, March 24. The police surrounded the natives who murdered Jasper, shot one dead and wounded two. The leader escaped. The police seized a quantity of arms and ammunition.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11226, 25 March 1897, Page 5
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