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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8784, 11 April 1907, Page 2

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- Press Association— Copyright, London, April 10, Mr Dcaldn will not accompany the Premiers lo Edinburgh since he does riot accept the honorary University distinction. Sydney, April 10. Sailed, at 3 p.m.; Miowera for Auckland, and Powerful for Lyttelton. Brisbane, April 10. T\yo casps of plague sre reported. Perth, April 11. A shock of earthquake was felt hero yesterday. Sydney, April 11, 1200 tons of coahtookfiro at the North Sydney gasworks this morning. It is supposed the fire was caused by generation of gas in the mass. The fire is now under control, A fireman was seriously injured, falling 25 feet. The Premiers Conference will meet at Brisbane in May. The twenty-eighth case of plague has occurred at Waterloo, the victim being the son of a man who recently died of the complaint. A plague rat has been found on a steamer trading on the northern rivers. An experimontaPshipment of 2,250,000 feet of Japanese timber lias arrived. Other shipments will follow. Ben Tillet, the English labor leader, left England at the end of March for Sydney,