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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1379, 4 March 1912, Page 3

Mrs. IJalliday, wife of a shepherd of Ujper Niihsda'ic, nec.r Dumfries left home to purchase groceries, had to walk two miles over the hills, and on her way back a, <len« mist came dawn. She lost her r.;ith and wandered iihout the hills all night in a downpour of rain and sleot. Search parties secured the countryfide {■«t without success, aud it was not till next day at 11 o'clock that I lie woman walked into a shepherd's house in the district in an exhausted condition.

A fire broke out in one of the inspector's offices at Crowe railway station on January 18, and in a few minutes gained a very'firm hold. The ringing of the Ere alarm bell brought to the scene a large number of railway workers. There was no water near at liniid, and they at once commenced to snowball the fire. About twenty took part in the fray, and before the lire brigade arrived they had by means of the -new extiiisiii.=iieil the flames. Little damage was d'Sne by the outbreak.

brown's kiddies hail bronchitis, and Mrs. Brown the "I'luc." Poor Brown himself was in the dumps, ami lhjties looked very blue. A kindlv neighbour dosed them all with Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, "l'was just, the thing to lix them up and make recovery sure. "Gee whiz!" said Brown, "That's simple!" lie plucked up heart arain, And now the Browns, and Mrs. Brown, ui ail u right as rain,-- Adrfc