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Diptberia is reported at Penhurst, in the Western district} of Victoria. The defective sanitary condition of the town has aggravated the disease. The barque Romeo, ashore on the Australian coast, is likely to become a U,u". a , eck. tier cargo consists principally of : and cement. Charles Hemy Watson, manager of the Colonial 13..;. k at Duokeld, Victoria, has been arr>'-'. I for embezzlement, The quest.,,n of a water supply to the country districts is becoming very serious. The Victorian Government has arranged for the running of water trains whenever necessary. Water tanks will bo instituted in some of the districts. Several districts threatened with a water famine have been supplied by the Government with centrifugal pumps. No ruin has fallen for several weeks.
Agricultural reporla from the several Hundreds in the North of the South Australian wheat district, state that the average crop will not be more than one and a half bushels to the acre, owing to the want of rain, coupled with the visitation of locusts.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2787, 28 February 1882, Page 2
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170AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2787, 28 February 1882, Page 2
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