AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13857, 19 March 1909, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

Press Assodafcion-By Telegraph-Coprriaht THE PLAGUE. SYDNEY, March 18. Another city inspector has been suspended for alleged neglect, of duty in connection with the outbreak of plague. A ratcatcher at Newcastle has developed a suspicious illness. JJe arrived a few days ago from .Sydney, whore ha was encaged in ratcatching at Wcornc's Hourmill. Received 1.8 a.m., March 18th. MARTYRS TO SCIENCE. Two thousand live rabbits are being sent to the Phillipinos to tho; order of the United States Government for experimental purposes with a. view to discovering h. serum which will render horses and cattle immune from a disease resembling rinderpest, which u causing much mortality among stock. LOYALTY OF IRISHMEN'. MELBOURNE, March 18. At a St. Patrick's Day banquet, Lord Dudley, in referring to his te'rin nf office in Ireland; said ho was convinced that a great majority of the people in Ireland were as loyai at heart :.s any in the King's dominions. AUSTRALIA'S POPULATION. The Commonwealth ' :x»>ulntioi] returns show that Victoria's increase for the year was 23,079. In New South Wales the increase was 22,730, in Soutli Australia 24,515, in Queensland 10,580,' in West Australia 554", and Tasmania, 1816. The males outnumber the females by 228,744. '.Victoria is the only State' where there are more women than men. DEADLY ICE CREAM. PERTH.; March 18.

In a case against two Italian ico cream sellers, the ■.Government' Analyst gave evidence that the samples of ico cream contained 18 million'microbe organisms to the cubic centimetre. Some of the organisms would cause peritonitis.' A guinea pig inoculated therewith died in Jo minutes. ;