LATE CABLES.
MORE PLAGUE IN SYDNEY.
SAD DEATH OF A MOTHER AND
CHILD
TROUBLE WITH SYDNEY COAL-
LUMPERS.
INDIAN TROOPS IN HOBART,
Press Association.—Telegraph—Copyright
Received March 15, 1.6 a.m.
SYDNEY, March 14. Walters is'supposed to have contracted plague while handling rat-infected cargo. This will cause a further detention o£ the troopship.
A young unmarried woman named Hutchison drowned herself aud her two-year-old child in the harbour. She left a pitiful note, in which she said she had been persecuted and could not leave her child to "go through what she had gone through. Trouble is threatened between tho owners of the steamer colliers and the Coal Lumpers' Union. ■ The owners complained of the limited number and' unpunctuality of the :himpers causing delay in loading.' In the event of the Union failing to take steps to. remove the grounds of complaint, the owners intend to lay -up the whole of the colliers on Saturday night. Sailed: Whakatane, for Auckland. HOBART, March 14. Arrived: Troopship Dalhousie, from Auckland.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 15 March 1901, Page 3
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166LATE CABLES. Wanganui Chronicle, 15 March 1901, Page 3
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