AUSTRALIAN.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11863, 18 February 1907, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

I Brisbane, Feb 15 | A fire at Galwßy Downs, Long I I Beach, destroyed fifty thousand acres. 1 of grass. I Adelaide, Feb 16 I What promises to be a valuable I discovery of monazite or thorium, I has been made on Kangaroo Island. I Thorium is valued at ,-£I7OO a ton. I The precise percentage of thorium I present is not definitely known, but I experts say it is high. One states I that tbe crystals found are the I largest in the world V^Z ! Perth, Feb 1G i Some shocking disclosures have I been made with regard to the boardi ing; out of inafnfea Baby farming i is apparently rampant, In one house i thirty babies died within three i jears. Another had thirteen deaths [ on its books. A woman named ! Mitchell has been arrested on a j charge of unlawfully killing infants.