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Dunstan Times, Issue 3131, 21 August 1922, Page 8

Two Northumberland miners picked up a shell detonator in a street at Bedlinglo'ii. One of the men started to open tli" shell with a knife, when an explosion occurred, and he and his companion wore injured. One escaped with flesh wound-, but he who used the knife had to be taken to Newcastle 1 nfirinarv for treatment. The explosion took place in the bar of an inn. and a woman iviw blown through a window, but was not seriously hurt. The bar was almost completely wrecked. The. foundation a national milk goat industry, born of the crying need of a rich baby with a weak stomach, has ins! been laid by a group of seven Chicago millinnaries. who discovered the object- of their desire within a dozen miles of bos Angeles. The lowly iroat is finally coming into its own. The poor man'- cow is now the rich man's hobby. Goats arc now travelling de luxe by fast express, blanketed, and personally attended in specially built cars, with right of way oxer everything except first-class passenger.-. Southern California has just yielded up seventy of her finest Toggenberg dees to establish seven herds of purebred milch goitts in Northern Illinois and Wisconsin. America's most valuable' milk goat, ['oily .Mac of Pasadena, owned by .). I?. McLaughlin, will be sold next month bv auction at a starting bid of 1'1250.