AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9294, 16 February 1907, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A HOUGH PASSAGE. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received February 16, 10.31 a.m.) HOBART, February 16. The Maheno. had a rough voyage. Seaman Watteis died of heart disease before leaving Milford Sound, and was buried at sea. A big sea came aboard on Thursday and inflicted 1 injuries on a seaman, H-eoid-ejnson. BUSH FIRES. BRISBANE, February 16. A fire at Galway Dowins amd Longreiadh destroyed 50,000 acres of grass. VALUABLE DISCOVERY. (Received February 16, 10.20 a.m.) ADELAIDE, February 16. What promises to be a valuable discovery of monazite or thorium was made at Kangaroo Island. Thorium is valued at £1700 sterling per ton. -The precise per centage' of thorium present is not definitely known, but exped® say it is high. One states the crystals found ore the largest in the world. EABY FARMING. • — — PERTH, February 16. Some shocking disclosures' have been made with regard! to tihe boarding out of infants and baby faarmiag- is apparently rampant. la one 'house thirty died within three years, Anot'heir hag thirteen a^atha y on its book. I A woman named Mitchell has. been/ arrested on a charge of unlawfully killing an inifanifc.