AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
Stdnky, February 26. The Ringarooma arrived from Auckland on Tuesday morning, and'anded her passengers in due course. It was not until nine hours afterwards - that the - *
steward was found to be suffering from the complaint of smallpox, and that the disease bad reached the fourth day. Great consternation was at once caused. The police scoured the city and suburbs in search of passengers. Of eleven saloon passengers eight were secured, and twelve out of thirty in the steerage, the rest are . still at large. The vessel has been fumigated. The patient, Thomas James, is believed to have caught the disease when last in Sydney, and that he carried about the germs for twenty-one days before the disease developed itself, and during that , time he had been in contact with a numbet of persons. Ex- Judge Hargreave has died In his seventieth year. .The finish of the cricket match was close and exciting. The Wolverine is not yet ready for General Scratohley. Tuesday will be a great day on the occasion of the embarkation of the troops. The Governor and Admiral will probably join in thedemonstration.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1479, 4 March 1885, Page 2
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187AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1479, 4 March 1885, Page 2
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