AN AUSTRALIAN CELEBRITY.
Tiie Queen lias conferred the honour of niK'hthood on Mr. Walter Hughes, an Australian celebrity. He did better than ' strike oil," he discovered the Walleroo and \IoO! 1 tvi cooper mines, and became the richest nan in South Australia. From this time the jolony began to do well, and the York Peninsula, which was an uninhabited desert, has low become a flourishing community with many townships. Mr. Hughes scntoutseveral important exploring expeditions ; gave large sums to the University at Adclade and other institutions; endowed professoi-ships, and cultivated vines on his extensive property, which in size would make some of our counties look foolish. In these days, when C.B.'s, li.C.B.'s, and K.C.M.G.'s, arc given rather freely, one is pleased to hear of a really deserving man getting knighted.— Globe. - Doctors now say that boiled cow's milk is not good for babies ; it is better raw. The doctors are right; a raw one gives better milk than a boiled one.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6003, 12 February 1881, Page 7
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161AN AUSTRALIAN CELEBRITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6003, 12 February 1881, Page 7
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