AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 115, 13 May 1909, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PKESS ASSOCIATION.] PLAGUE PATIENT DEAD

SYDNEY, May 13. Tuesday's plague patient is dead SUGAR RISING.

SYDNEY, May 13. The Colonial 'Sugar Company has advanced prices '5s per ton.

MR TJEAKIN

MELBOURNE, May 13. Mr Deakin declares that he would not take office in a Coalition 'Government.

RAIN BADDY WEEDED

.. , . !. • SUBNET, May 13. The protracted absence of rain is having a bad effect on crop and "labour conditions gen-era'fly..

WORK BEFOUE TALK. SYBNEJ, May 13. The management of the Proprietary Mine have informed the union that the company are unwilling further to discuss conditions before ■resuming work.

LABOUR AND INVESTMENT. n . SYDNEY, May 13. Mr Collins, a representative of the Tendon County Council, who is visiting; Sydney, states that owing'to the policy of the Labour Party English ica-pita'lists are afraid of investing ■money in Australia. CHiUKOHES AND THE MASSES. SYDNEY, May 13. ! __ Mr 'Fisher, referring to his reception -at, the Presbyterian Assembly, iSaM *hat ithe signs of the times pmtrted -to ifflie churches as a wnole b «r&o@ing thek- influence' to bear in jn.^piwing"tffc© Sot of the masses.

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