GENERAL CABLES.
Ml’ .CANAL WHICH WOULD. NOT PAY.
By, Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, July 16. Mr Balfour states that the Admiralty, Committee of Defence consider the strategic advantages of a ship canal connecting the Firths of Forth and Clyde would not be commensurate with the cost. REBELLIOUS PATIENTS.
LAUNCESTON, July, 17
It was intended to remove the remaining patients from the city to an isolation hospital, but they refused to go.
The President of the Board of Health states that unless they submit he will have to isolate the whole city.
A STATE PARLIAMENT. . PERTH, July 17
Parliament has opened. The Governor’s Speech expressed pleasure at the preferential trade movement and gave a strong hope that the construction of the transcontinental railway would soon be commenced.
A CONFIDENCE MOTION
SYDNEY, July 17
Mr McGowen’s amendment (in support of the Government) was carried by 59 to 42. SCIENTIST’S EXPLANATION. MELBOURNE, July 17.
Professor Gregory attributes the, earth tremors to gigantic slips on the floor of the sea.
THE PLAGUE,
THREAT, .TO ISOLATE A CITY,. BRISBANE, July, 17. Queensland has been declared free of plague. ' '
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 945, 18 July 1903, Page 1
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