Captain Primrose and his son were stricken with plague yesterday.
The petition to Mr. Chamberlain is being sent to the Governor to-day. Tt is the strongest petition in the matter of signatures ever sent from the colony. Nearly all the doctors, architects, and engineers have signed, and it bears over a thousand signatures altogether.
The Governor, Sir Henry Blake, wrote home last mail asking for a} sanitary expert to be sent out.
The agitation has so far had this successful result, though there is a wide-spread opinion that the governor has tried to steal a march on the petitioners.
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