LOST IN THE BUSH.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 539, 3 September 1897, Page 3

LOST IN THE BUSH.

A Terrible Tale of Death.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Per Press Association. Received 10.20 a.m. Sydney, This Day. Three young children, aged respectively five, four, and three years, the children of a selector named Mendall, were lost in the bush near Wagga and perished. They wandered after opossum on Saturday. The night turned bitterly cold avid stormy, and heavy rain continued ceaselessly since the children were lost. The whole countryside turned out in search. They were attracted by the crows, which were, however, hovering over a dead lamb. They found the children close by, lying with faces downwards on a stony ridge, thinly clad and with no hats or boots oil. They lmd evidently died the first or second night out.

France and Russia have concluded a treaty, and are allied in brotherly love, which will continue so long as the brothers have a fairly equal number of marbles.

Persons in Auckland at present are way laid, assaulted, robbed, and otherwise ill-used, and the police are powerless to prevent it. Such is the opinion of Judge Conolly.

Thirty - five miles of frontier with British bayonets flashing in the sunlight seem to have caused the Afghan man to take his solemn affidavit that he was always loyal. At anyrate there is to be no doubt about his loyalty while the “thin red line” thirty-five miles in length is there. It is one of tho curses ot our civilization that, as a rule, demand is the sure destroyer of quality. “No man,” says a writer of the 17th century, “ was ever written out ofreputation but by himself.” The same with inanimate things. No first-class article ever depreciated save by the cupidity or carelessness ot those producing it. To have surmounted a human weakness of this nature is something to be proud of. The demand for Walker’s Whisky is enormous, yet Walker’s is the beat.