AUSTRALIAN.
Adelaide, May 10. In reply to their circular, the vermnent have received generally favourable replies as to the proposed Conference to consider the Chinese question,
May 11. The Babbit Conference, when it sits here, will investigate the disease known as itch, which kills rabbits quickly, but which is not transmittable to other animals.
Brisbane, May 10. Six hundred of the Chinese on the Croydon goldfields have armed themselves in order to resist ejectment. Sydney, May 10. Mr Francis Abigail, Minister for Mines, has sent a cable to M. Pasteur asking the terms on which his representative would be permitted to instruct the authorities here as to the cultivation of the virus of the Cumberland disease. It is estimated that if vaccination witli the virus is successful, some 300,000 sheep, which die annually from the disease, could be saved.
Melbourne, May 10. Mr Irving, of Sail l'rancisco, has written to the Government stating thai he lias discovered a method of exterminating rabbits by means of inoculation,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2897, 12 May 1888, Page 2
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166AUSTRALIAN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2897, 12 May 1888, Page 2
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