AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
THE DUTCH PEARLER FINED. By Cable—Prew Association—Copyright. Perth, July 18. Captain Smith, a Dutch pearler, has been convicted on all the charges and fined £5 for smuggling, £IOO for entering a place not a, port without reporting and without reasonable cause, £5 for using his vessel for smuggling, £2 10s for using ship's stores before entering them for home consumption, and £5 for interfering with goods, subject to the control of the Customs. The captain of the other vessel was fined the minimum penalties, totalling £l2 10s. SUGAR WORKERS' STRIKE. . 'Brisbane, July 18. At Richards' Hambleton sugar mill strikers stoned men proceeding to work. Some shots were fired, but no casualties are reported. INSANITY IN VICTORIA. I Melbourne, July 18. The figures show a., remarkable increase of insanity in Victoria. In 1905 there were 780 admissions to asylums I and Inst year 1130. '] A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. _, , Sydney, July 18. The body of Mrs. Ellen Hughes has been found in a well near her house at Dundas by a neighbor, who years ago found deceased's mother in exactly simiar circumstances. It is supposed that both committed suicide. I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 21, 19 July 1911, Page 2
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