LATEST AUSTRALIAN

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 92, 8 June 1911, Page 6

LATEST AUSTRALIAN

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O EPIDEMIC OF FEVER. (Received 8, 10.25 a.m.) Sydney, June 8. Tiiero is an epidemic ol dengue lover at Suva, the Governor and Lady May being amongst Lho vie Li ms. Almost every business house in town is slim thanaod as a i fault ot fcne o],idemic. A DISASTROUS FIRE. Sydney, Juno 8. A lire at Broken Hill, in Block Ten Mine, destroyed tne cnango house, wlicrein were 390 suits ol clothes belonging to the night shilL . , RIFLE SHOOTING. Sydney, June 8. Tito Rifle Association nan received a letter Isom Colonel Collins, Imping tne Dominion’s Jr in ley toanN will he able to parHamate m the Sydney meeting uu its way back from England. xle said they wore not sending a representative team this yea: , as tne Empire match was not being fired in Australia, but he would endeavour to induce individual riflemen 1.) pay a visit. MELBOURNE CUP. Melbourne, Juno 9. The cup entries include Lady Lucy. GAS WORK ER.5’ STRIKE. Brisbane, June 8. Though the gasworks strike has not been officially declared oil', all tlio employees excepting toe union cJlieials have applied lor re-engagement. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. Brisbane, June 8. The Customs Dcpaitmcnt has advised sugar-growers employing aboriginals hull Liioy must pay the same wages as to whites. COLD'STORES. Brisbane) Juno 8. The Government is erecting central cold stores in Brisbane at a cast of £70,000. DRIVERS’ TROUBLE. ; Adclaudf, June 8. There is a recurrence of the drivers’ trouble. Numbers of drivers, under the union’s direction, are declining to lumdio goods from Remnark, Where the fruie-growers’, trouble is still in progress. ESCAPE OF A PRISONER. Adelaide, June B'. A prisoner travelling from Frdmaiir tic to Sydney in the steamer Karoola, unscrewed a cabin door and escaped during the constable’s absence. A BOV WOUNDED. Adelaide, Juno 8. As the-result of a quarrel an old man named Gleildcnning shot at and wounded a.boy. When arrested, Glendenning had Jive bullet wounds in Ins head, through attempting to commit suicide.