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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12407, 24 November 1908, Page 4

Rolf Bolderwood. the famous Aus-tralian-novelist, who is Mr T. A. Browne in real life, recently celebrated his eighty-second birthdey and is now the oldest settler in Melbourne.At seventeen Mr, Browne started "squatting" or sheep farming, but successive droughts swept* away his "flocks, and he went into the Government service in the-- threefold capacity of stipendiary magistrate, xoroner and goldfields warden, and the experience gained led him to write his first book, "Bobbery Under Arms," which on such world-wide fame. The funeral of the Late Dr Car'michaeV Anglican Bishop of Montreal, was one of the most largely attended ceremonies of the kind ever seen' in Montreal. The Federal and •Provincial Governments sent reoresentataves. "I leave £500. to the Acton Cottage Hospital, because .tjhey have been so good to many of my customers," was a clause in the will of Mr Thomas Reed, a" local pawnbroker. JJThe longest plants in the world are sea weeds. One tropical variety ia known which measures in length, when it has reached its full develop-^ ment, v at least 600 ft, or about oneeighth of a mils. I Dr Holland Roso, who has written admirably on Napoleon, is engaged upon a life of William Pitt. It will contain a large amount of now information, gathered from private sources and from the Foreign Office.