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* I I NATIVE ACT OF VENGEANCE. MAN MURDERED AND MUTILATED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Rocd. 950 p.m.) PERTH. Mar. i. An instance of native vengeanco is reported. Two aboriginal youths stabbed to i death and chopped off the head of another ; because his brother had killed the father of one of the murderers. One of the, assassins died in custody, while the other jumped overboard at sea and was drowned. COST OF WAR PENSIONS. : MELBOURNE, Mar. 4, The annual war pensions liability of the Commonwealth is now £4,649,838. NEW SOUTH WALES STOCK. . SYDNEY, Mar. i. A progress return of the stock in New South Wales. for the year ended last December shows an increase of 66,779 cattle, and decreases of 77,457 sheep, and 10,521 horses. The decrease in horses is largely attributed to the increasing popularity of motor traffic. HEAVY LOSSES BY FLOOD. SYDNEY,. Mar. 4. Floods at the Bega destroyed maize crops along the river flats, causing enormous' damage.' Floods in the • East' Gipps- | land area caused damage estimated at I £30,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17101, 5 March 1919, Page 7
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