AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Per Press Association. MELBOURNE, March 16. Pearson, a cyclist, rode here from Sydney Post Office in 57 hours 32 minutes, which is a record. SYDNEY, March 16. Tho New Zealand athletes are passengers by the Miowera. The Carters' Union, Seamen's Union ant* the Cooks' and Stewards' Union have commenced a strike against the throe coastal companies. Communication with Queensland is dislocated through floods. Three miles of telegraph lines have boon washed away, and thousands of sheep and cattle are surrounded by flood waters at Boggari, where the downpour was the heaviest for sixtv voars.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8536, 17 March 1908, Page 7
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99AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8536, 17 March 1908, Page 7
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