GENERAL.
SOMNAMBULISTS FALL.
FARMERS MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
. Henry Stoltenberg, a young married farmer from West Narrabri, who was a boarder at the Great Southern Hotel, Sydney, had u miraculous l'escape from fatal injury on Friday. Stoltenberg states, that; he occupied a room, on the top,story,of ,tbe hotel and went to bed about,. 11 o'clock. The next tiling he remembered was awaken, ing on the iron roof about eleven or twelve feet from the footpath. Stoltenberg,. while in his sleep had got out. of bed, put his socks on, stepped out of the window and fallen about 25 feet on to a sheet of iron on the verandah roof, and exactly' between two steel girders. The sound, of the .fall awakened the hotel boarders, and Constable J. J. Welby secured the Civil Ambulance, and Stoltenberg was hurried to the Sydney . Hospital. An .examination here showpd, that the sonmabulist, had broken his nose and sustained a slight injury to his spine. As further internal injuries were feared it was decided to detain him in the institution.
Dr. Jekyll, who admitted the patient, characterised it as a miraculous escape from death.
£125 FOR DEFAMATORY WORDS
The hearing was concluded last Thursday., in the. Melbourne County Court, before judge. Moule, of an action for slander arising out of a speech made at a Labor rally. The plaintiff was Christopher. ll.,Syle, officer, and the defendant was Gordon Claries, .Webber, , M.L.A.. Plaintiff claimed £249 damages on account of slander. The allegation was that at a meeting in the town hall, Richmond, on August 18 last w defendant spoke of plaintiff in the following, words: "This Chris Syle was had up at Richmond Court .the other, day for assault-ing.and;ill-treatirighis wife. Jf I had; my way, I,would tar and feather him and throw him in the river," ... The jury found that the words were defamatory, and .'that ...defendant v . was actuated by malice. Damages were as. sessed at £125, and judgement was en. tered for plaintiff for that amount and costs.
CHINESE LEAVE THE NbRTH.
In a report to the Minister for External Affairs for the year en-Jed IV cember 3L|ast, the,.medical officer, for the Northern Territory indicates a gradual clearing out of the.. Chinese population of baj;win. During (he 12 moiiths, 165, Chinese tenements,, .4'-?-cribed as a conglomei-a';ijn of levels, ■e'Mh/njtt to wris-irtii
: Whereas in 189! tf.ere were 3784 I ,<.H) ,, >(l>niU!. 'V I ''iU ; ' '"•'■■• v iU, ■■' "*? Chinese,,,mi .tjhe i T/en , i t .o-.v. there now remain only; 1033. The Japanese po pulation, which numbered ,197 in IUC'I, has been reduced to 7", while there are only 8■! Malays'aw* Mlipmos, and "rl Itai pastes, The, total iropnlatjon . '•! the./Territory is now. 3720, of which number 2452 .Europeans. The ..medical, pfficers adds tint the climate is fairly, healthy, <;'nd that only one case of .malaria. was repn-:ed doling the year. other diseases. resulting from : coafciot betw.i^.n.tfyeEuropean and nav.ve have giveiksp me., trouble. No genuine ease. ,of i leprosy, had ever been seen, in the Territory, although specially looked for, and tropical, disease, had had very little to do with the mortality statistics.
SYDNEY'S VITAL STATISTICS. The number of m^rriage ( <? ,in. Sydney in 1914 was #479,. .corresponding to a rato of"; 12-79 per 1000 of This total is ,587 more,than that for the preyions .year.,,.and is the.largest number yet recorded.,. There were 9216 marriages' celebrated by the clergy, .and 263 by registrars,, The births registered during the year numbered 20,821, equivalent,,to. 28.09 per 1000 of population. Of the total, 10,596 were males and 10,225 females, the proportion being 104. males to 100 females, life number of births is the highest ever recorded in the, metropolis. The.number of illegitimate children born during the year was 1488, or 6.95 per cent, of the' total births. The deaths during the year numbered 7603—namely, 4123 males f-nd 3480 females—equal to a rate of 10.96 per 1000 of the population. This is equal to that in 1909, which was the lowest recorded f and,is 5 per cent, below the average of the preceding five years, which, however, were all years of exceptionally low mortality. The number of deaths in 1914 was 432, or .5.4 per cent., less than what might have been expected from the experience of the previous five years. Out of the 32 diseases there were increases in nine and decreases in 23. I
A middle-aged man, with a wooden leg, told the Lord Mayor's unemployment committee itt. Melbourne that ho and his ,wife had walked from Brisbane to Melbourne in search of work. The pair had covered the ;whole distance on foot, except 100 miles, over which-;they were given a lift in a motor car. The man asked assistance in obtaining a "married couple" situation in the country. The case has been regarded as genuine, and the couple are being assisted. r , , .
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 46, 25 February 1915, Page 3
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