AUSTRALIAN.
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MELBOURNE, September 7
Sir George Turner's only son was run ovJs. uy a train yesterday, and succumßb^>o his injuries. The thnber stackers' strike continues. It is seriously interfering with the movements of timber vessels.
Constables Cummins and Daley were rowing across Broken River, when approaching a weir, the current capsized their boat, and both were drowned. A third man who was in the boat had a narrow escape. .
HOBART, September 7. A series of spacious cayes has .been discovered on the .north-west coast, with stalactite and stalagmite formations of marvellous beauty. . ■
. ■:■. ■-,/■ . ;SYDNEY,, Septembei- 7. " .-. Island news states that inter-tribal fighting is progressing on the Island of Ponape. The . white residents are alarmed, and have asked for protection from the German authorities of New Britain, who have despatched a punitive expedition of 100 police.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 September 1908, Page 7
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