AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1009, 10 March 1909, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Bx Electbic Telegbath—Copybight.] (Feb Pkess Association.) Received March 9, at 9.20 p.m. Sydney, March 9. There is a second case of plague in the Goulbourn street flour mill, that of one of the proprietors. The victims condition is serious. Si"nor has been scratched for the Uip. Fared—Handa Isie, for Auckland. Newcastle, March 9. Sai'od —Brisbane, for Lyttelton. Clarence River, March 9. Sailed—Volatlor. for Lyttelton. Received March 9. at 0.25 p.m. Melbourne, March 9. The Grand Master of the United Order of Oddfellows, in the course of lib annual address, said: "Let lis rid ourselves 01 tl<- incubus of decaved dogmas of fossilised formula that had their origin a century a"0 such as mips, pass words, and signs, 'coupled with "such emblematic absurdities as wooden axes and rusty swords, Fdui "eated thousrht 'and modern ideas will have none of these." Rceived March 10. at Is a.m. Hobart, March 9. The Premiers are sore over the return of the Federal Ministers further part ici pat in:: in the conference. The press w-w from to-dav's deliberations. Perth, March 9. There has been a series of extensive iew'lerv robberies during the past six ve- ks. * Vestercbiv the detectives noticed twoVien discing'in an unfrequented part of the river bank, and arrested them. The cVte-ctivcs at the spot the men wcrejlig- .';.,- -inearthed jewelierv valued at £loo.