AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 114, 12 May 1909, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PRESS ASSOCIA HON.] THE PLAGUE. (Received May^l^m.)^ A man employed as a carter in the city has been attacked by plague. PERTH, May 11. A case of plague is reported from Geraldton. ABUSE OF THE MARRIAGE TIE. SYDNEY, May 12. Mr Justice Pring, dealing with a case in the Divorce Court, said that tlie marriage law was treated abominably. * No respect was shown to the marriage tie, home or children; it was just like the conditions of savagery. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. PERTH, May 12. When the Orotava arrived a detective arrested an Austrian gum-digger named Ravelick on a provisional warrant charging Mm with obtaining at Dargaville (New Zealand) by false pretences a gold chain and locket, valued at £11, from Elias Mardick. MAORILAND'S HARD TIMES. SYDNEY, May 12. A New Zealander called at the Trades Hall and gave a doleful account of trade depression in the Dominion. Business, he said, was falling off in nearly every trade, and hundreds of men were idle in almost every branch ©f industry- '