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NEW ZEALAND."
WELLINGTON, August 3.
Two more troopers who returned by
the Britannic, orange and Ferrars,
both of Auckland, have died from
measles.
The Wellington Trades Council
has decided to insert an advertisement
in the town and country papers in New
Zealand asking the Union of Shearers'
members not to go to 'Australia during
the progress of dispute.
Henry Surrey, a prisoner at Daveii
port, Auckland, attacked another prisoner
with a shovel, and knocked him
down, cutting his head. After they
were separated he attacked a warder
named Amelia, with a shovel. The
warder ordered Surrey to stand back,
and cautioned him several times that
he would fire. Surrey, however, persisted,
and the warder fired. Surrey
was shot in the chest, and expired in
a few minutes. It is thought that Surrey
became insane suddenly.
Captain Ellis, for many years harbour
master at Auckland, has died, aged,
so.
A sensation was caused at Wellington
to-day when it became known that
small-pox had broken out in the troop-
ship Orient. The patient is Sergeant
Callaway, of Auckland. No particulars
of the case are available. -The
health authorities declined to allow any
troops to leave the ship, which was
ordered into strict quarantine. All the
troopers and crew are being vaccinated,
and the case will be thoroughly fumigated.
The troopers who landed in
southern ports are being carefully
watched and examined.
Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer, states
that he found the hospital arrangements j
on the Orient excellent.
[From Melbourne Papers.].
VICTORIA.
BALLARAT, August 1.
The entries for. the Sheep SHOW of the
Agricultural and Pastoral Society this
year are not so numerous as last year,
and Comprise the following: Menaces
162; longwools 65 ; Shropshire Downs ii;
fat sheep 15 Six entries have been received
for Mr. George Russell's special
prize of £10 for the best pen of live station
four-tooth wethers.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Bnl
large Co-operative Distribution Society,
which consists of 222 members, on Friday
night, it was shown that the net profit
for the term amounted to 552 16s.
3d. A sum of 300 was set aside to the
distributed among the shareholders.
CHILTERN, August 4.
A meeting of the bishop's provisional
council of the Wangaratta diocese was
held yesterday. The chief matters dealt
with were the bishop's residence and the
report of Church Acts Revision Committee,
which recommended some material alterations
in the Church Funds and Patronage
Acts. The site of the bishop's
residence was fixed upon, and plans for
the laying-out of the grounds were an
proved of. ,
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