2020: DAY 40
SMH, p8
Harris Joinery, 365 Kent St, Sydney - source: State Library of NSW
THE FAR EAST – (p4)
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT - HONG KONG, MARCH 10
THE DOWAGER’S VICTIMS
THE COMING REBELLION
RUSSIA AND JAPAN
PLAGUE
- the Dowager as tyrant; the coming Boxer Rebellion; Russia & Japan; the plague - still with us and will remain so until the authorities pull down half the dens in the Chinese quarter.
COMMUNICABILITY OF PLAGUE - Long Letter from J Laker Macmillan
WHARF RESUMPTIONS cost; some large shipping co's may prefer to remain in their locations and would take Govt. debentures rather than cash for their properties. So, little cash to pay.
THE PROTECTIONIST CONFERENCE, (p5)
SYDNEY APRIL 1900 BY EDWARD PULSFORD, M.L.C.
“AN ILLICIT SCOOP”
THE PROTECTIONISTS UNINTENTIONALLY REVEAL THEIR PROPOSALS
THE DELEGATES AS FINANCIERS
THE FARMERS
“BUT IN EVERY CASE”
THE COMMONWEALTH BILL.
THE DELEGATES AT WINDSOR
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MEASURE.
THE BRITISH PEOPLE AT LAST WAKING UP.
(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, March 30.
THE WAR - hotting up
BUBONIC PLAGUE
(p8)
EXAMINATIONS FOR SANITARY INSPECTORSCITY GARGBAGE COLLECTION
NUMBER OF CASES YESTERDAY - 48 rats
7 more cases 1 death
Ashburton-Thompson - in contact with Sanitary Institute of Great Britain; Proposal to conduct exams here.
CITIZENS VIGILANCE COMMITTEE Announcement of Prof Anderson Stuart's lecture, "The plague, Its Cause, Course and Prevention" Letter sent to Water & Sewerage Board requesting that sewers should be filled with sulphur fumes one night.