AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS. SYDNEY, November 14. A plague of grasshoppers in the Molong district is causing great destruction. A WAR MEMENTO. SYDNEY, November 14. Whilst a man was undergoing an operation for a supposed growth -on the armpit, a bullet was extracted, which had entered his arm during the Boer war eight years ago.
WOMAN FATALLY WOUNDED.
PERTH, November 14
A man named Richard Scott, while suffering from melancholia, fatally cut his wife's throat, and inflicted dangerous wound on himself.
PROTEST AGAINST PRIZEFIGHTS.
SYDNEY, November 14
The Anglican Synod has entered a strong protest against the coming Burns-Johnson fight, and expressing a hope that the Government will intervene to prevent a spectacle which, by its inherent brutality, is of a dangerous nature, and cannot fail to corrupt the moral tone of the community. TATTERSALL'S SWEEPS. HOBART, November 14. In the House of Assembly, a motion for a referendum on the question of the abolition or retention of Tattersail's sweeps was rejected by a large majority.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3045, 16 November 1908, Page 5
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167AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3045, 16 November 1908, Page 5
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