Zealand, claimed fow weeks ago to have received a message from the spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. True, Dr, Tillyard, of Canberra, Australian Federal Capital, one of those to whom Sir Arthur was to communicate after death, is not convinced of the accuracy of the claim. Not to be doubted, however, was the voice of Mrs. Catherine Hart, formerly of South Yarra, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, "Mrs. Hart made a will leaving property to her daughter whom she appointed sole executrix. On August 1, probate was asked for and granted, presuming her to be dead, as she had not been heard of since April, 1921. Born in England in 1842, Mrs. Hart arrived in Australia in 1862, In February 1921 she was living in South Yarra, Later in the year she left there to go to the Benevolent Home in Royal Park (Melbourne) she resided two months. She then disappeared from the ken of her re-natives and her last known act was pleasure tour as some sections of the press call or rather miscall it. Even a mother has at tinies to leave a sick child in order to meet mortgages and find ways and means to afford to cure the child and help' provide for it during its futare, Thus Mr. Scullin must meet At tralia's creditors and her Empire relatives to provide for her future, for assuredly as the "New York Times" predicts Australia will recover, and her Prime thas: pledged himsIf that her debts shall te honoured and her Budget balaneed. It has been said that fools and children should never be shown a half finished construction. How true this is the present Cabinet is learning from bitter criticism, The Premiers of all States, their Treasurers, and officers of ' their treasuries are present at the Finance Conference in Melbourne opened on Tvesday, August 19. Mr. Fogten, Minister for Customs presided, and Mr. Lyons, Postmaster General represented the Commen-Wealth. Later in the day visiting Mr. Scullin at his home where he was confined to his bed, Sir Otto] Neimeyer and his confreres attend ed, as did also Sir Robert Gibson, Chairman of the—Cemmionwealth Bank board and the Governor of the Bank, Mr. Riddle, There was some heckling of the Common-saith representatives by the State representatives as to how £000,000 was to be obtained with-further stories of good luck for men of the working class, both Being also in Victoria, A rabbit trapper was returning to his home on the Moliagul Road, in the hills "S14 from a Savings Bank demand that the Prime Binister account. The court proceedings for Should make a statement, and, some probate were published with the thought, remain in Australia.
How. Consequences thay Mrs. Hart. arose ever, it. Scullin was able, though from her obscurity to deny her £4F from well, to attend the follow-of north-eastern Victoria, when ne noticed something shining in a deep rut through which water from recent rains. was running,—In-bulging his curiosity he was rewarded by discovering the object Was a nugget of gold, He at once pogged out a claim, and as he was returning from his last trip for the open season for opossum hunting, he has called the claim the "Lucky Possum."
Another gold find is reported from Bendigo, one of the are: which witnessed the scenes of the early gold rush days in the fifties, William Lockett and his brother Herbert have registered a claim in the midst of old workings. They had specimens of quartz and samples of alluviad gold. Alluvial gold does not offer great scope, but various "pockets" occuring here and there encourage types of old prospectors like these two brothers by yielding a £100 or so every now and then, making a living which earned by toil and hard manual
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