AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13677, 20 August 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

Prt*« AsHdciation-By Telegraph-Copyrijjht RESCUE OF CHILDREN. ./SYDNEY,'August 19.; Mrs. Raynbr's; child; fell into' a well while" playing with a : baby at the side. ofi,the well, ; ; Mrs. Raynor jumped down to rescue the child,' and-the baby crawled to the edge; and tumbled in n.tsu. The mother, standing up to her neck in water, held both , children above . her head for an hour. until help. came. .. a ripe agk "■■ ■■■■-■■'". Mrs. Ivory has died at • the age of" 109. \■:"•';.' ''• '.- EEMALE FRANCHISE. IN VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, August 19.^

A unique deputation, consisting of the Womanhood Suffrage League, formed by men,-waited on S ; r Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria,:, who .promised to consider their request, to grant; women votes. GOOD CHEAP ADVERTISING.

Sir Henry Weetlon has retained from England. He says that the Anglo-French Exhibition is the besb and "cheapest; advertisement Au'rtralia has ever had. He heard nothing in England regarding the rumour thai, the King was 1-lcely to vimt. Australia, and he thinks the visit improbable. A ArUNIFIOENT DONATION. BRISBANE, August 19. The Young Men's Christian Association's new building has been opened. Air W. Cribb donated £22,000 tto the fund. MEAT FAMINE TN PERTH. PERTH, August 19. There is a partial meat famine owing to wholesale traders having' comb ned in declining to supply non-union retailers.