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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 1 June 1899, Page 2

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I The Melbourne Presbyteiy formally deposed the Rev. Hector Ferguson for heresy. A Royal Commissioner has been appointed in -N.S.W. to inquire into tuberculosis in cattle and tho .effect of consuming meat and milk from tuberculosis animals. Mr Wragge predicts that in a very short time the weather will have moderated around the spot where the Perthshire is sup posed to be ; but there will . shortly be heavier blows between Australia and New Zeauland than those which caused the recent disasters.Under arrangements with other colonies-, the Government of South Australia, has agreed to extend Colonel Gordon's term as Inspector of Warlike Stores ln the colonie;*. in London until September 30. Mr Lyne has opened his Federal cam< paign at Sydney. He denounced the Federal Bill strongly. He objected to equal State representation, and said that the Federal tariff was an impossible one. Chief Justice Dodds nas opened Tasmanian Parliament. In his speech he referred to Federation as within measurable' distance of attainment, and foreshadowed a new Electoral Act on the Hare System. Ms Dodds in his speech, hoped some reduction' would be made in taxation and increased remuneration be given to civil servants. , In the Queensland Assembly in Committee on the Federal Enabling Bill Mr Curtis raised" the separation question and moved an amendment that a ballot be taken the same time as the Federal Referendum, asking the electors whether they are in fa\ your of Queensland entering Federation as three States. The Registrar} in Bankruptcy recently ordered the groscution of E. T. Hooley, but the Treasury has now decided not to prosecute. A cargo of Victorian wheat has been sold in London at 28s lOd. Ridhard Knight Gafllick, mjsrckant.of Auckland, suicided in the Tavistock Hotel London, by shooting himself with a revol' ver. Ten thousand men employed in the guni and engineering works at Creusot, France, havo struck.