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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10139, 27 August 1904, Page 3

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Prw Assn. — By Telegraph. — Copyright. BRISBANE, August 26. A woman rag-picker has been stricken witb plague, x , SYDNEY, August 26. Parliament has adjourned until September 20. Mr Waddell resigns to-morrow morning. MELBOURNE, August 26. Mr Diawsoiii, Jate Minister for Defence, states that the relations between General' Hutton ' and 1 liis predecessor m office* were of the sarnie unsatisfactory character as liis own relations with General Hutton. (Received 10.25 a.m., August 27.) MELBOURNE, August 27. Mr Dawson, late Minister of Defeaice, states that he is prepared to prove General Hutton's "aggressiveness against tlie civil branch was a discordant element, but if liis relations with the commandant were unsatisfactory it was because m every interview! with hiiu General Hutton abused liis predecessors m office and tho permanent liead of the department. On one occasion he went to the extentof calling Sir John Forrest a coward, alleging he lvad said one thing verbally and written another officially. One of his differences with Generai Hutton related to expenditure. The General wanted to spend three times as much as Parliament voted. FREMANTLE, August 27. A man m a produce store has been plagued.