A FATHER’S SAD MISTAKE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7021, 8 January 1910, Page 6

A FATHER’S SAD MISTAKE.

SHEEP DIP USED AS MEDICINE. A CHILD DEAD AND ANOTHER SERIOUSLY ILL. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Received January 7, 11.36 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 7. A sad fatality is reported from Young, a township on tho Burrangong, 256 miles south-east of Sydney. |Mr McMillan, a farmer, obtained ,somo sheep dip, thinking it was sulphur, and mixed it with treacle. Ho (took a portion of the mixture himself, and gave some to two of his children. Due of the children is dead, and tho Other is in a critical state, but McMil-

lan is recovering. BURNING STEAMER ABANDONED LEFT TO HER FATE OFF ASCENSION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, January 6,. Nows Has been received tbat the liner' Norse Prince has been abandoned on fire off Plancon Head, at the Ifibmd of Ascension. The vessel was valued at £77,000, and the cargo at £IOO,OOO. The Norse Prince was one of the extensive fleet of the Prince Line, with headquarters at Newcastle-on-Tyno. She was a steel screw vessel of 6611 tons register, with a carrying capacity of* 9500 torfaTand was engaged in the trade from Antwerp and London to the River Plate, returning to the United Kingdom. She was built a little over two years ago by the Palmer Shipbuilding Company of Newcastle. Ascension Island lies about 750 miles north-west of St, Helena, in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, and is a victualling station for the British African Squadron. ; The island is of volcanic origin, and Groen Mountain rises to a height of 2820 feet. It is almost destitudo o! vegetation, but the climate is temperate and healthy. The population is under 3CO. The island was so named from the fact that it was discovered on Ascension Day, 1501, by the Portuguese. Britain took possession of it in 1815.