AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8835, 15 July 1905, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

[By F.LtxTitii' Tei.w;]ia]-h.—C<u-yii;uut.] Received July 15, at 0.55 a.m. Sydney. July 14. One of the Corpornlion nil-catchers, working in the vicinity of the liarhor, has hecn attacked liy plague. 'Hie Warwick Farm (,'luli. nol having increased the bookmakers' fee. is not hov eotlcd. The Murray has coinincnccd lo recede. Tin.' danger is over, though large areas arc still flooded. During the- hist, few days a number of plagued rats have been caught, close to the Darling Harbor wharves. Perth. July 15. Tn (ho Supreme. Court, application was made to quash the warrant against. \V X. Willis. An .'itlid.ivit put in by Willis denied that he committed fraud mid asserted that proceedings had been taken for 1 liepurpose of notoriety. Patrick Pea's aflidavit stated tli.it W'illis had no interest- in the land in ipieslion, and no collusion with him. A third allidavit by John Waul, declared that, Willis' action disclosed no offence against the Land Act. The hearing was adjourned until Monday.