AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 272, 18 November 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

| PBB PBBH3 ASSOCIATION.] Sydney, November 16. No official report has ye 1 ; been made on the suspected plague case. It if stated that several dead but healthy rats were found in the vicinity of where the boy worked. The authorities contemplate a campaign against rats which have lately been largely on the inciease. Melbourne, November 16. The old age pansioes returns show that the number of pensioners i? 16,253, and the annuel cost .£311,000 Perth, November 16. It i$ understood that a hitch ha'' occurred in Mr Piess&'s negotiations, and that he is unable to form a Ministry, and will wait upon the Qovsrnor to-day and advise tbat Mr Morgan be sent for. Received 16, 7.2 p.m. Sydney, November 16. The Board of Health bas diagnosed the case es true plague, and active steps are being taken to prevent the spread of tbe disease. Received 17, 5.3 p.m. Sydney, November 17. The Sunday Times asks: If New Zealand and Fiji are compelled by the high tariff to discontinue sending cargoes to Australia, what about the revenue looked for from that source ? Adelaide, November 17.

Two stock trains near Petersburg. The engines and a number of trucks were telescoped, and the firemen, Brodie and Eager, killed. A driver, Haines Pennington, was injured. The CommissioDer of Works and a number of other passengers in carriages attache! to one of the trains were unhurt.