AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
FROM CAPETOWN TO NEWCASTLE.
Received July 25, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY", July 25
The Bhip Neotsfleld made a passage from Capetown to Newoasfcle in thirty days, beating a tramp steamer, which left East London for the same port three days after wards* by a day.
CONSUMPTION IN VICTORIA. Received Jaly 25, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, July 25. The annual report of the Melbourne Hospital shows that two thousand people die annually in Victoria from consumption. The report urges that the Government should tafce preventive measures.
GOLD ROBBERIES AT KALGOORLIE.
Reoeived July 25, 10.7 a.m. PERTH, July 25,
A detective, who was detailed to enquire intu the allegations that wholesale robberies of gold had been going on at Kalgoorlie, states, that his investigations prove that hundreds of thousands of ounoes were stolen annually, and that there were men at' Kalgoorlie with enormous banking accounts, who lived in the lap of luxury solely by means of stolen gold. There were others whu held "dummy" leases and banked hundreds of ounoes of gold, which never came from such leases, out were obained in an illegal manner; Warden Dowley also presented a report, in which he does not think muoh gold is stolen, and in which opinion he is backed up by a number of mine managers. 1
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 26 July 1906, Page 5
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214AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 26 July 1906, Page 5
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