AUSTRALIAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 93, 9 June 1911, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN.

oEPIDEMIC OF FEVER. (Received 8, 10.25 a.in.) ■ Sydney, Juno 8. There is an epidemic of dengue fever at Suva, the Governor and Lady. May being amongst the victims. Almost every business house in town is shorthanded as a insult of the epidemic. A DISASTROUS FIRE. Sydney, Juno 8. A lire at Broken Hill, in Block Ten Mine, destroyed the change house, wherein were 300 suits of clothes belonging to the iiiglit ,philt. ~j RIFLE SHOOTING. Sydney, June S. The Hi lie Association iias received a letter from Colonel Collins, hoping the Dominion’s Bisley team will he able to participate in the Sydney meeting on its way back from England. He said they wore not sending a representative team this year, as the Empire match was not being lived id Australia, but .he would endeavour to iiulu.ee individual riflemen to pay a visit. • MELBOURNE CUP. Melbourne, Juno 9. ■ Tiro cup entries include Lady Lucy. GAS WORK EPS’ STRIKE. . Brisbane, Juno 8. Though the gasworks strike lias not been officially declared off, all the employees excepting the union official l have, applied for re-engagement. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. Brisbane, J uno 8. The Customs Department has advised sugar-growers employing aboriginals that tiioy must pay the same wages as to whites. ~ COLD STORES. Brisbane, June 8. The Government is erecting central cold stores in Brisbane at a cost of £70,000. DRIVERS’ TROUBLE. Adelande, Juno 8. There is a recurrence of the drivers’ trouble. Numbers of drivers, under the union’s direction, are declining to handle goods from Reiimark, where the fruit-growers’ trouble is still in progress. ESCAPE OF A PRISONER. Adelaide, June 8. A prisoner travelling ironi Fremantle to Sydney in the steamer Knroola, unscrewed a cabin door and escape;! during the constable’s absence. A BOV WOUNDED. Adelaide, June S. As ilie result of a quarrel an old man named Glendcimiiig shot at and wounded a boy. When arrested, Glendoiining had live bullet wounds in Ins head, throng!) attempting to commit suicide.