AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9637, 12 January 1903, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Eleotric Telegraph— Copyright— United PreaAsaooiatiou SYDNEY, January 11. Walters' boot factory, Fort street Lodge, was entered by burglars, and £200 worth of boot* stolen. A woman named Robertson an<l three childi-en were burnt to death by the destruction of a, dwelling at Mudgce. A, youth named James, bathipg at Lane Cove river, was terribly mangled m the leg by a shark, and died. 1 ) BRISBANE, January 11. The Cabinet has declined to interfere with the death sentence of Pat Kenniff. MELBOURNE, January U. A large plate- glass window, at Ways', jewellers, m. Bourke street, was smashed, and 70oz of bar gold stolen. The Austral Wheel Race resulted:— Auger lJForbes 2, Lewis 3. There were 15 starters, including the New Zealanders Chalmers and Plunkett. Forbes was leading two laps from liome, followed, by Auger and Lewis. Auger tackled the leader at the turn, and there was a great race; won by a length and a-half . Time, 2min 26 l-sth sec. The winner is 22 years of age, and only started racing last season. The Sityle of architecture m New Zealand dwelling .houses docs not favorably impress Mr James Pinnock, an English traveller now. m Wellington. He deprecated •especially- the . prevalence of corrugated iron roofs. ' This most insanitaiy style, he says, should be done away with m favor of slate. For his own part, he would prefer to. camp under the stars at ivsvj time rather than under an iron roof. Lead poisoning cases were often traceable to the nso of such roofs. Mr V. Mangham, ol Colyton, thinks his locality can go one better than anything yet recorded m the way of dairying profits. In October last he started with seven cows, <md finished the month with eleveu, the cheque received from the factory amounting to £17 10s, November started with 11 cows, the niuinber being increased by the end of the month to '13,-an average., of 12 for . the month, and the creamery cheque was £20 17s 6d, an average of nearly £1 14s per com Mr Milligram also states that for December lis cows yielded, 4001bs mare milk than m November. — Rangitikei Advocate,