AUSTRALIAN NEWS
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY. By Cable.—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, March 11. A mysterious affair is reported from Seymour. Private William Leethy was found dead outside a house where a number of soldiers wtre drinking. Subsequently the body of his brother, Private Edward Leethy, was discovered ; " the river. SALE OF BLOOD STOCK. Melbourne, March 11. At the blood stock sales Mr. Walter Mitchell paid 7500 guineas for Trafalgar, a record price for an Australianbred stallion. Mr. J. Robertson gave 1050 giifmeas for the imported mare Cythero. EXPORT OF STOCK PROHIBITED. Brisbane, March 11. The. Government has prohibited stock leaving the State, in order to keep up the supply of meat under the Mtat for Imperial Purposes Act. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT YIELD. Adelaide, March 11. The Minister for Agriculture now estimates the wheat yield at 34,000,000 to 30,000,000 bushels. QUEENSLAND PREMIER HOMEWARD BOUND. Brisbane, March 11. The Premier departs for London at the end of March. He will attend to mportant Stste business. CLOSED DOWN. Sydney, March ]l. Another colliery, the West Wallsend, has closed through slackness of trade. OBITUARY. Sydney, 'March 11. Obituary.—The Rev. A. Ba'R-on, the oldest Presbyterian minister in Australia,
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1916, Page 2
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