AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 13 May 1901, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

United Press Association—Per Electric .telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.40 a.m., May llih. REBELLION IN NEW CALEDONIA. ■SY'DNLi, May 13. Noumea. fi!e.-t report a nboilinti a;vu-. ~-i the native* or '.louiio. Tueir due; /i;.i.-.j, and his waniors, rahiloicea by iv.ii;.i>'.is, attacked numbers of little villages <n friendly natives near Kokjn, and nave gone pillaging and burning. They killed a chief named Tien, and tha natives aro taking men, women, and children to tho mountains. Energetic measures have been started to stop the rebellion, and n military contingent has been sent to tho sene

Received 10.39 n-.in., Kay 13th. destructive; firm. By a firo in Tillnek and Co.'s, wholesale [ri'ficers, tlio largo rive-storey building in Kent klvcOl l wits damaged, iho 'oss bi'ir.;; estimated at. several thousands of pounds, chiefly by water. Th-i buiMiruv n - as f-d!y insured in tho National 'r..v.!r;'n<o Company. MILITARY EXPERIMENT. Opportunity is to bo taken by the military authorities on tho return of the New South Wales, New Zealand, and Queensland troops from Melbourne >m Nunday night to entrain nnul detrain them at Albury. Tho experience thus gained is considered valuablo in time of war, especially under the present iutc- State railway conditions.

THK PLAGUE

United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received "8.42 p.m., May 11th. BRISBANE, May 11. A child named Picord has developed plague.. A man named Gardiner, of Fortitudo Valley, is suffering from plague.