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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3188, 12 September 1917, Page 8

What is considered to hold first place as a foat of endurance in horsemanship was achieved by Walter Thomas Darcy, who left Wyndham, West Australia, on the night of August 1, to see his brother, who was seriously injured, at Hall's Creek. He left with five horses, and rode 140 miles. He secured fresh horses some distance from Turkey Creek, reaching Hall's Creek' early on Sunday morning, 80 hours from Wyndham, having covered 250 miles. For the Inst 110 miles the actual riding time was fifteen hours, and for the last twenty-one miles two hours. The ride waß accompanied minus blankets and with very little food, the man being in the saddle practically the whole time over some of the roughest country in the Commonwealth. A chicken has boon hatched in Andover'with two heads,- one beak, two bodies, four legs,, and four wings. It lived only a short time.