Agnes Kilo, a girl five years old, daughter of a respectable German farmer, who works at Mundawaddera, Wagga Wagga, was found at 2 p.m. on September 5, after having been lost in the bush from her home for eight days. She was sent from her mother’s farm at 11 o’clock on the 27 th ultimo., with a message to her grandmother, who lived half a mile away. On coming back a great rain storm came on, and the little girl lost her track. On her absence being dis covered, her parents gave information to Constable Ferguson, of Yerong Creek, who promptly sought help from Mr Eldershaw, manager ©f Munda waddera station. A search party was formed. On Tuesday 79 men went out, on Wednesday 120, on Thursday 90, on Friday 100, on Saturday 140, on Sunday 60, on Monday 80, and on Tuesday 50, and on the eighth day of the search, which had ex tended for 13 miles on one side and 11 miles on another by about nine miles wide, the child was found by W. Chapman, a saddler, on the main stock route from Yerong Creek to Albury, six miles away from her home.
A male somnambulist had a narrow escape at Preston recently. He was ob served by a signalman in the dead of night walking along the line in his sleeping attire. At first the man was thought to be a ghost, but on coming near he was found to bo fast asleep and snoring soundly. It is natural, says Balzac, to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we cannot understand, to insult jvhat we envy.
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