AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 March 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

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Collision at Sydney Heads. Received this day, 10 55 a m. Sydney, March 15.

A collision occurred off the Heads late last night betweeu the steamer Dovedale, and barquentine Silver Cloud from Ho-

kianga, with a cargo of timber. The Silver Cloud was holed above water line, and a quantity of gear was carried away. She is making but little water. The pilot boat towed hci into harbor. More Troops for Africa. The troopships Custodian and Maplemarc leave to-day with a portion of the contingent. The Plague. Perth, March 15. Two fresh cases of plague. Mr Chas. Findlay residing at Newcastle Street, and Earnest Locke a member of the assembly, residing with’thc Colonial under-secretary. The other patients are doing well. No infected rats have been found at Perth yet. Parliament. Hoiiart, March 15. Parliament will be dissolved to-morrow. Troops Dalhousie’s troops received a warm reception. They paraded the streets. Coal Miners’ Trouble. Sydney, March 14. Trouble is threatened between the owners of -team colliers and the Coal Cumpers Union. The owners complained of the limited number and unpunctuality of the lumpers causng delay in loading. In the event of the Unions failing to take steps to remove the ground of complaint the owners intend to lay up the whole of the colliers on Saturday night Determined Suicide.

A young unmarried woman (Hutchison) drowned herself and a two-year old child in the harbor. She left a pitiful note saying that she had been persecuted and could not leave the child to go through what she had gone through.