AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, May 6. Ladies BanfiuTy, Constance and E. Knox, Major Steward, and Captain Bussell, members of the New Zealand Federal Commission, were passengers by the Warriinoo on Saturday.
Tlie departure of the Sonoma has been fixed for Thursday. The Government has decided to pay the First and Second Contingents sent to South Africa 4s 6d per day, but those who received Is 2d a day Imperial pay while at the front will have that amount deducted. The matter has been long in dispute, "the men claiming 4s 6d over and above the Imperial pay.
The census shows the mitles increased 102,645 and the females 127,453-. The population of the State represents 4-45 persons per square mile, compared with 3 - 65 at last census.
Phillippiue files state that the plague exists at Manilla, the first case being iu the middle of March. Since then there have been nine cases, all of them fatal.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 100, 7 May 1901, Page 1
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