AYbilc the Australian Blondin was performing at Melbourne twenty feet from the ground with, a small boy-on his back, ho protended to buck the boy- off with the view of adding to the sensation. The child became scared, and tripped Blondin, who fell, but caught the rope with his feet, the boy clinging to him They- hung thus till a constable managed to rescue them. A 300-ouncc nugget was unearthed by tbe Queen’s Company, at Black Hill, Ballarat, in tbe 500-foot level. A Sanitary Measure.— *'•' Here’s to internal inprovements.” as Dobbs said when he swallowed the dose of salts.
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Patea Mail, 9 December 1880, Page 3
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