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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9227, 13 August 1901, Page 3

The Grey Harbor Board has now about 60 men employed in connection with the extension of the Southern breakwater. The Melbourne City Council is going to spend £10,000 in. the erection of new city baths on the site of the disgraceful establishment now doing duty as municipal baths in Swanston street. "A motion is now before the Common Councils of Lower Austria," wrote the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail, at the beginning of last month, "to stop the sale of American-made boots and shoes throughout the country." A lad named Treffene, 13 years old, living at Patchy Flat (Vic.),, was seriously injured by an explosion of gunpowder recently, the full force of which he received in the face and eyes. The lad placed three or four charges of the gunpowder in a bottle, into which he dropped a lighted match. One of the largest floating docks ever built was despatched from the Tyne at the end of June. The pontoon, which haa been built by Stephenson and Co, for the Spanish Government, is capable of lifting 12,000 tons, and is 450ft long and 117ft broad. It was guided down the river by seven tugs, and on clearing the harbor it was taken charge of by three powerful Dutch tugs. The destination qf the pontoon is Port Mahon (Minorca), a distance of 2100 miles, which is expected to be reached in twenty-five days. A novel mode of summoning the police to quell a family brawl was resorted to in Ballarat East recently. When the melee was at its height one of the disaffected parties rushed across the street and broke the fire alarm. This caused ther local brigade to turn out, followed by the police, but after a mile Had been traversed it turned out that only the police were wanted. Legal proceedings will be taken.