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RAIN IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. MANY BASEMENTS FLOODED. (United Press Association.) !By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PERTH, May 6. Heavy rain has fallen over o large area of the fanning country. ‘ The downpour in the metropolitan area overtaxed the storm water drains, lifting manhole coven, weighing lewt. Flood water undermined a store until the building collapsed and slid down an embankment. Many basements wert flooded to an extent of six feet, causing heavy damage t* the stock. FIRE IN TIMBER YARD. VERY LITTLE DAMAGE DONE. SYDNEY, May 0. Fire broke out in the timber yards of Smith Bros, at Mascot an hour after the yards were left unwatebed for the first time for some weeks past. The brigades prevented the blaze spreading, and the damage only amounted to about £SOO. It is believed that the outbreak was due to a deliberate attempt to burn the timber.
A medicinal triumph. Pod Pills gently yet surely overcome constipation. Is 3d tin. —Advt. The chair used by Charles I during his trial at Westminster Hall was afterwards in the possession of William Sands Cox, a surgeon well known in medical circles in Birmingham. as one of, the founders in 1828 of the School of Medicine. The chair is about to be transferred' to South Kensington Museum., ' •’ —A tablet has been fixed to the wall of 12 West . Hill, Sydenham, London, to commemorate the residence of Sir Ernest SLbackleton there-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20710, 7 May 1929, Page 9
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