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  2. THE INFECTED AREA.

    Under the authority of the Board of Health, represented by Dr. Ashburton Thompson and Chief-Inspector Getting, a house-to-house inspection of buildings within the infected area was ...

    Article : 513 words
  3. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Up to the present 7700 pipes have been turned out for the Coolgardie water scheme. The first mate of the steamer Balmoral, who was landed at Albany, suffering from dropsy and ...

    Article : 43 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 193 words
  5. THE QUARANTINED AREA.

    A visit to the quarantined area, or rather to the verge of the area, on Saturday disclosed a state of affairs resembling a condition of friendly war. In Kent-street, from Grafton-lane--which, by the ...

    Article : 769 words
  6. INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

    A meeting of citizens wan held on Friday night for the purpose of enlisting sympathy in aid of the Indian famine relief fund. The Mayor presided, and among those present were Lady ...

    Article : 58 words
  7. REMOVAL OF THE SHIPPING.

    The removal of the shipping business of the Union Company, Messrs. Huddart, Darker, the North Coast Company, the Illawarra Company, and the Adelaide Company, from the Sussex-street ...

    Article : 205 words
  8. SYMPTOMS AND EFFECTS OF THE DISEASE.

    A special prize of 50 rupees was recently awarded in Madras for the best essay on the subject of the bubonic plague. The winner was Mr. P. Karunakara Menon, a civil apothecary of ...

    Article : 621 words
  9. WRECKAGE ON THE COAST.

    Captain Mills, of the steamer Australind, from Singapore, reports that when passing through Lombock Straits he saw about 500 or 600 cases of kerosene floating about, but saw no wreckage. ...

    Article : 52 words
  10. QUEENSLAND.

    Fulford and Williams' cattle station, Springfield, comprising 211 square miles, within 60 miles of Chillagoe, was purchased by auction yesterday by Mr. William McDowall, of ...

    Article : 34 words
  11. MR. O'SULLIVAN AT QUEANBEYAN.

    QUEANBEYAN, Saturday.--Some months ago it was proposed to give the Minister for Works a banquet here, to signalise his advent to office, but owing to the response to a command to ...

    Article : 661 words
  12. "NOTICE TO RATS."

    The action taken by the North German Lloyd Company with the object of keeping their magnificent liners above suspicion is worthy of all commendation, and will probably be followed by other ...

    Article : 728 words
  13. THE WEATHER.

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 words
  14. NEWCASTLE.

    A large meeting of railway employees was held at Islington on Saturday night for the purpose of discussing the matter of a bill which it is proposed should be introduced to provide for the ...

    Article : 408 words
  15. INOCULATING RATS.

    The Agent-General was recently communicated with by the Premier with the view of obtaining a supply of scrum for inoculating rats, and thus hastening their destruction. On Saturday Mr. ...

    Article : 56 words
  16. ROCKDALE.

    The Mayor of Rockdale (Alderman J. F. Hegerty) has closed the garbage tip at Lady Robinson's Beach, and put on a gang of men to thoroughly disinfect it and kill any rats found ...

    Article : 39 words
  17. MARRICKVILLE.

    Marrickville residents have become alarmed, owing to the occurrence of a case of plague in the suburb. At to-night's meeting of the council Alderman Heslehurst will move that the sanitary ...

    Article : 46 words
  18. PRECAUTIONS AT NEWCASTLE

    NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Dr. Dick, Medical Officer of Health, was rushed yesterday morning by persons desirous of being inoculated with Dr. Haffkine's prophylactic fluid. He has ...

    Article : 206 words
  19. PERSONAL PRECAUTIONS.

    Mr. Joseph Benjamin, medical practitioner, Ahmedabad, India, sent a paper to the "British Medical Journal" for publication, containing a series of hints to the native public as to ...

    Article : 333 words
  20. SYNOPSIS AT 9 A.M. ON SATURDAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 words
  21. INTERCOLONIAL FORECAST.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 words
  22. THE PENNANT BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

    The final match in connection with the current pennant howling competition of the Northern Association was played on Saturday afternoon between Lowlands and Waratah Clubs. A close ...

    Article : 88 words
  23. COASTAL REPORTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 words
  24. ACTION IN THE COUNTRY.

    CAMDEN, Saturday.--The Mayor, Mr. G. Furrier, considering the great influx of visitors to the Camden show, took precautions in the matter of health. Some thousands of visitors from the ...

    Article : 143 words
  25. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS AND JURIES.

    MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Representatives of the Commercial Travellers' Association waited on the Attorney-General this morning and asked for better facilities under the electoral law to record ...

    Article : 173 words
  26. IN THE COUNTRY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 214 words
  27. SHIPPING ITEMS.

    The barque Hiddekel, which arrived from Calcutta on Friday, still remains in quarantine, and may do so for several days further., She lost one of her crew from cholera on the passage down, ...

    Article : 565 words
  28. IN WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The following telegram was received from Fremantle by a leading shipping company in Sydney on Saturday:--"The Medical Association is now deliberating as to steps to be taken here in ...

    Article : 71 words
  29. A QUIET SUNDAY.

    A large number of curious idlers hovered around the barricades at the quarantined area all day yesterday, but had very little reward for their trouble. The 40 or 50 constables on duty stood ...

    Article : 657 words
  30. QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Saturday.--At the instance of the municipal health officer the fumigation of vessels from intercolonial ports is continuing, Howard Smith and Co. and the Adelaide Co. ...

    Article : 110 words
  31. STATION REPORTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 words
  32. THE FERRY TRAFFIC.

    The various ferry companies affected by the quarantine of the Sussex-street wharves have commenced to ply from Circular Quay. The companies dispossessed of their usual landing stages ...

    Article : 209 words
  33. THE PLAGUE IN RELATION TO CLIMATE.

    A report just completed by Mr. J. H. Du Boulay on the plague in Bombay shows that in the hottest period there was an inclination for the disease to disappear. When the weather is ...

    Article : 342 words
  34. WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.

    KALGOORLIE, Friday.--Smith and Fish put through the Queen Margaret battery a parcel of six tons of stone from their claim, 18 miles south of Bulong, The return was 277oz. 15dwt, of smelted gold. The residues contain 40oz. ...

    Article : 274 words
  35. MISHAP TO THE STEAMER KAWATIRI.

    QUEENSTOWN (TAS.), Sunday.--The Union S.S. Company's boat Kawatiri, trading from Melbourne to Strahan, very narrowly escaped being wrecked when entering Macquarie Harbor ...

    Article : 188 words
  36. THE PLAGUE IN INDIA IN 1897.

    The great outbreak of plague in India in 1897 taxed the administerative and medical resources of the Indian Government to the utmost, and the numerous despatches, telegrams, and reports ...

    Article : 2,069 words
  37. THE SECOND CASE AT BALMAIN.

    Directly the second case of plague was reported at Balmain yesterday the Mayor (Alderman Henry Mills) visited the locality, accompanied by the inspector of nuisances (Mr. Paris). The ...

    Article : 110 words
  38. THE SOUTHERN COLLIERIES.

    BULLI, Saturday.--At a moss meeting of the South Bulli miners, held this morning, a communication from the provincial council was read. It stated that they had decided that the miners ...

    Article : 335 words
  39. INDEX TO NEWS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 words
  40. FLEAS AND THE PLAGUE.

    In October, 1898, says the "British Medical Journal," Dr. P. L. Simond published in the Annates de Pinstitut Pasteur a paper in which he argued that the infection of plague, as conveyed from rat to ...

    Article : 196 words
  41. SUBURBAN NEWS.

    At the last meeting of the North Sydney Council, the following rates for the ensuing municipal year were struck:--General rate 18, lighting rate 3d, street watering rate 1d. It was agreed that the thoroughfares to be ...

    Article : 266 words
  42. TREATMENT OF GARBAGE.

    On scientific authority the spread of bubonic plague and other pestilences being in a great measure attributable to insanitary conditions the matter of the treatment of house refuse becomes ...

    Article : 703 words
  43. THE RABBIT SPECIFIC.

    Sir,--I am surprised that the Government, with their experience of the Rabbit Act, have not adopted the means for the extermination of rats as were used for the rabbit pest, viz., bisuiphate ...

    Article : 86 words
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