AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 54, 19 February 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Sydney, February 18. The S'ate Premiers have received invitations to attend the coronation as visitors of distinction. A man named Twiat, residing at Camperdown and employed in Pittstreet, and a woman named Wear Debhardt are suffering from plague. Melbourne, February 18. The Federal postal revenue for January was .£24,000 above the estiroa'e". A thirty-six ounce nugget hss been found at Yandoit. Brisbanb, February 10. A Cbinaman unearthed a four pound nugget at Georgetown, Three cases of plague have been reported in the city during the last few days, One proved fatal, that of a man Shanahan. j Hobart, February 18. The Inter-State Medical Congress has opened. On the arrival of the Wakanui it was reported that a passenger for Hobart had developed smallpox 32 days ago and wss convalescent. The other local passengers were vaccinated and the cargo fumigated before being landed. Received 18,11.1 p.m. Sydney. December 18. A man named Hlder is p'agued in a hntel in the same block as Her Majesty's Theatre. Brisbane, February 18. Sir John Hall h*s arrived from Japan, en route for New Zealand.