AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13594, 14 May 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

Pr«*R Ajs3ociataon-By Telegraph-Copyright WEST AUSTRALIAN DIVIDENDS. - "PERTH, May 14. The total cash dividends paid by West Australian mines to April lafit amounted to £18,117,000. MR.' LEO ACLAND. - ' . " -FREMANTLE, May 13. Mr Leo Ac-land,., who. arrived, to-day by the Britannia bears ..evidence; of his, encounter with a tiger in India, but hia general health is good. .'■.. PLAGUE .IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, May 13. . A man has been stricken with plague in North Sydney. source- of infection is believed to be''local. ■. THE LATE jVER KINGSTON". MELBOURNE, May 13. . The House met.and adjourned out of respect to the late .Mr Kingston, after sympathetic references bad: been made to his memory. AN AUTOMOBILE CORPS. The Federal Government has sanctioned the formation of a. volunteer automobile corps. '':,•..'- STEAMER OVERDUE. ■ . Anxiety is felt for the safety of the steamer Orion which was due', from Tasmania at the end of last week. She carries 8 passengers and & crew of 14. There have been heavy westerly gales lately and she may have taken shelter. HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS. HOBART, Majr 13. Owing to increased'trade, the Marine Board has decided to construct a pier 650 feet in length /to accommodate* the largest steamers. . '