AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13531, 28 February 1908, Page 5

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in a k:\IKI) robber. ' SYDNEY. February 21.

•Tlist, before the chief event, at the Camawatha. races, a, masked man stuck up the gatekeepers. Presenting a icvolver, he demanded the takings. liib gatekeepers tried to secure the robber, and in the struggle the robber deliberately fired a. revolver at one of the gatekeepers. The gatekeeper wan not hit. and the robber tlieii escaped. Received 11.38 p.m.. Febitunv 27th. THE PLAGUE. A lad named O'Brien, who was working in Druitt- fitiwt. Sydney, is suffering from plague. CLERGYMAN'S HART) LOT. Archdeacon Abbot, of Taniworth, in fiending in his resignation, to the bishop o! the diocese. jiointed out that in five years he had received £1952 from the parish and expended on iis work £1750. Ib- had been unable to save any money out, of which to replace necessary things after five years' wear and tear, and they were almost worn out.

OPIUM SMUGGLING. MELBOURNE, February 27.

Some Customs officials mo- not surprised at iht* Adelaide opium fraud. One estimated ihal the Customs losses iu t lie various States totalled £IOO.OOO per annum.