AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
(Per Press Association) Albany, October 25. The P. and O. steamer Oceana, which has just arrived from London, has scarlet fever on board. The vessel has been quarantined. Sydney, October 25. The Mariposa sailed for Auckland to* day. She took 275,000 sovereigns, shipped by the following Banks : — Aus tralasia, London, Australia, Commercial, English and Scottish. The first hot day in tke city, to day, the thermometer being 88 in the shade, was marked by three suicides. Penny, a well-known sbarebroker and Justice of the Peace, shot himself ; Dr Dale ended his life by taking prussic acid ; and a clerk, named McCoy, cut his throat. This Day. The third reading of the Federal Enabling Act Amendment Bill providing that eighty thousand voters approve of the new constitution was carried by 53 to 28. The Salvation Army week of self denial in Australasia realised 425,850, this is the world's record in the Army. England totalled £24.000. New Zealand again heads the Colonial list this year with £6,250.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 102, 27 October 1897, Page 2
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