c Eleotrio Telegraph -Copyright— United Press Association. Sydney, April 6. The plague patient, Nicholas, is dead. Two fresh cases of plague were reported to-day — a woman named Dibley at Red , fern, and a boy named Gates at Sydney ' hospital. The latter resided in Clarence street. The public library has been closed in t consequence of Cassin's case. The quarantine area which embraces h Sussex, Kent, Erskine, and King streets, g has been cleansed and released, r Thursday will be proclaimed a day of i. special prayer and humiliation on account s of the plague. The Archbishep has issued a special prayer to be read in the churches. ' Wellington, this day. ■* Captain Trotter, of the Indramayo, '* Captain Smith, Superintendent of Mer- c antile Marine, the principal wharfinger, and Capt. Johnston, harbormaster, met Mr 1 W. T. Glasgow, Secretary for Marine, and Mr D. McKellar, Commissioner of Customs, •' yesterday, and discussed the question of preserving ports from danger of plague by ' a process of fumigating the ships and their cargo. It was shown that fumigation of ■ cargo minimised the risk of contagion, and • that generally cargo was not injured by fumigation. " The views of the shipping • people were sent to the Premier, and the 1 Government will decide whether vessels t, are to be hauled away from the wharf at i night to prevent rats lauding, or whether t vessels and cargoes shall be fumigated before the ships come alongside the wharves.
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