AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11515, 22 February 1909, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

"(Press __flsn.— By Telegraph-^Copyright) SYDNffiX, Februaty 20. .7 A Socialist^^;itariied -'Holland * has;, been arrested -at Broken Hill .for seditious language. 7'X : .-_ ;..-. y:7 f \ (Received Februarj- 28, .10.^ a^mV) I f ; ; . V ,S^^EYv;Ftofiry 2& 7 The 'populatiibn ".":pf Ythe f State a^ihe ;fen<4 of last year ov\*as 1;605j032, 'rtn ifiprease of 31,808, whe-rieof. 26,468 was due to; an excess of iTjirth^ by«nf -dertths. Thi? excess is th© hij^est^opid.- . The births huinbered .^2i,643, -V- 7 ; '_ ecoW; Deaths numberod i 6,085, ; Svith: tli& we'eepUpn of the year 1906, is. the lowest rercord:; 7 Marriages totalled. 12,615, . equal to 7M per 1(XX) of population, the highest for 23 years,;,and,3 v .pe>!.cent ,aboye. the .average bf7th©3 lSi^t '■-. five years. There!. W<* 215 'iriales r m the State to .every 7 loo females. .':■'.-■ ■>,:.■: 7 There has oeen ( splendid monsoonal rains m- th* horth^artern. strid* : «6»thfern; districts.' --.A good - oJf?etM«>n is ' .nssurfe(_3 '•>-. Vjailuabi© deposits of Tshltle • in^i^^pt haVe .bfeeii discovered m the Mur^illumba! district.- '>■-;■: X -.'joo.-. ..oAsicY^'-'i Th©' Tr^surei»l olaitris Ythat tho-neW* Ibari; is sStisfaoWry.);; The State will have to pAy .about k£3 14s 3d interesrtr He say.«? • that - the credit of New • Sbiith Wales is nearly at the ton. bf the t'*efe; Only Britain and 'FPVnkje" Sre -able ( it6 ; bprfow to better advantage-. -.■.-, 7 (Received February 22, 10.16 a.m.)* v PETRTH, Feb. 22. , The 'Paroo's smallpox patient, a colored member of tho ci*e\f,Yhas -succumbed.