hi »on. per t. per t. perI*'-ts.Sbera ; andOFt.is stated that certain improvements are being carried out. so that it will be impossible for any such damage to be again ocasioned by storm waters.The Launceston “Examiner says:—“News has been received that Private Gordon H. Cole, eldest son of Mr T. S. Cole, station master at Nawbola, has been wounded in France. Private Cole,# who ia a grandson of Mrs H. Dyamond, of Dawson street, Bairnsdale, holds the distinction of being the first in Tasmania, and probably in the Empire, to volunteer for the present war, as his offer was in the hands of the military authorities on the instant that the cables informed us Belgian neutrality had been violated by the Germans. He also undertook to provide his own horse and equipment.