CHINESE RUNS AMOK.
BURNS EIGHT HOUSES AND KILLS - A MAN. _." ' '• ByTolcgraph—Press , Port Darwinj September 12. A Chinese lan amok at Fountam Head on Thursday, and is still at laige. - He started by firing thatched houses, including his oun residence. Miners rushed in to save the property, and the Chinese attacked them with a meat cleaver. One Chinese was killed, and a black fellow is in a critical condition. Three Chinese have been admitted to the hospital. Eight thatched cottages wcro destroyed, CHEAP CABLES SCHEME. -* , SUEPRISE IN AUSTRALIA.
By Telegraph—Press Ajso'c'tn 'icnVronyrtthli ■ , '/ ./Melbourne, September.;l2,_; Mr. Josiah Thomas," Federal!Ppsimaste'rr General, referring to!Great;'Britain's decisionthat deferred messages'.cannot be sent over' the Pacific.i.Cable^at'. cheaper rates, without: the .consent'- of- "foreign Powers, said it/was''.'-. : an;-'extraofdinary situation,, seeing' that private..-.or..;fbreign companies ..had- nothing ...to, .do .with' thS' Pacific; Cable, and that .-the..partners;in the latter/approved of the,.deferred tem. .He,! added 'that' probably:/the/'in-: fluenco :of private!..companies'/in"Great; Britain!was;so/ srrbhg,as,;tb/ampunt to an objeotion.Z ; ■'.;/ ': /'/'■////!;!/'/;///';
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 920, 13 September 1910, Page 5
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152CHINESE RUNS AMOK. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 920, 13 September 1910, Page 5
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