AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12437, 9 April 1908, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

PORT DARWIN NEWS.

The wet season would appear to hay ended svddenly, and during the past lev days south-easterly weather, with drying winds, has been experienced. The rain fall for the wet season to date i& 6L inches, and this has been well discribnte. over the season, thus fostering strong vegetation. Much of the country is uov. a series of great swamps and billabongs which will fast empty with the dry weather. At the Daly smelter alligators an numerous right tip to the smelter. One of these saurians has paid several visit*to the kitchen of one of the smeltei hand's, and has taken meat and foodstuffs.

At Port Charles lighthouse the keeper^ have hatched 32 crocodiles from 36 eggs which they incubated in decaying leaves.