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ATTEMPTED TRAIN WRECKING. By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright Melbourne, September 27. An' attempt was made to wreck a train at Gembrook. The locking bar of .the points was wrenched off and a stone inserted. An engine and truck were derailed, but no one was injured. THE PLAGUE. Sydney, September 27. An outbreak of bubonic plague is reported at Sonde, New Caledonia. The necessary precautions have been adopted in the Commonwealth. VICTORIAN CRIMINAL RETURNS. Melbourne, September 27. Melbourne official returns show that the average annual expenditure on intoxicting liquors, in Victoria for the five-year period ended 1009, was £3,996,300, or '64s per 'head of population. Up ito August last 407 hotels have been closed by the License Reduction Act. The prison return shows that the number of persona detained in gaols last year per ten thousand of the population was 63 per cent, less than in 1881.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 145, 28 September 1910, Page 2
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147AUSTRALIAN NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 145, 28 September 1910, Page 2
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