AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 81, 26 May 1911, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

EPIDEMIC OE MEASLES. »]»> (Received 2G, 9.10 a.in.) Sydney,; May 2G. There is an epidemic of measles, fljjd three hundred deaths have ocicurrod. The doctors are unable to 'pope with the disease, as the patients decline to follow instructions. ■ prinz waldemar. >■] Sydney, May 2G. , The condition of the patient on ’ board the Prims Waldemar• docs not 'Suggest smallpox, and it is probable ; t!)o vessel and crow will bo released from quarantine to-day. v SHIPPING FREIGHTS. ■ i Melbourne, May 2G. Tim Minister of Customs will ask the slapping companies . trading to Australia if they proposed making a ['eduction in freights equivalent to the reduction of the Suez Canal dries, i ■ ■ i. : FEDERAL LAND TAX. ’P* Melbourne, May 2G. . A revision is expected in receipts from the Federal land tax confirms the belief that the Treasurer’s estimate of one million will ho about realised. WRECK OF THE MANDALAY. (Received 2G, 9.d0 a.m.) Perth) May 26. Later intelligence states that tho Mandalay was wrecked at the Chatham Islands ten days ago. She was blown ashore in a storm. The crew of fourteen walked fifty miles to the township of Denmark. Plenty of provisions were landed from the v.'cck. MOUNT LYELL RETURNS. Melbourne, May 2G. Mount Lyell, for tho four weeks ended May 17tir, treated ■ 28,219 tons of ore, which produced 728 tons of blister copper, containing 719 tons of copper, -16,010 ounces of silver, and i2d ounces of gold.