The Bubonic Plague.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 105, 6 February 1900, Page 3

The B ubonic Plague.

Melboubne, Feb. 2. All restricti®ns on traffic between Adelaide and Melbourne, owing to the plague, ace removed.

Bkisbane, Feb 2. The New Hebrides and Loyalty laland are proclaimed to be plague infected and vessels will be subject to quarantine.

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