AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received November 11, at 10.20 p.m. Melbourne, November 11. The Board of Health has learned that a Warrnambool doctor imported bubonic plague germs from Colombo for experimental purposes, and sent an officer to sucure their destruction. The doctor refused unless paid L3OO. The Customs detective has now been sent and instructed to seize them, as the gelatine in which the germs were packed had not passed the Customs. Received November 11, at 10.25 p.m Sydney, November 11. Maurice Lothian, a passenger by a recent mail steamer, has been arrested on a charge of the forgery of scrip valued at L4BO, at Handsworth, near Birmingham. Brisbane, November 11. A lunatic choked-himself to death-at an asylum by thrusting a sheet down hie throat. Received November 12, at 1 a.m. Melbourne, November 11. The Australasian's preliminary estimate of the: Victorian wheat yield is 14,400,000 bushels, of an average of 7'2 bushels per acre.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7365, 12 November 1898, Page 1
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159AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7365, 12 November 1898, Page 1
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