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Show Everyone a Mail Man in Some Parts of the Australian Bush SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. In parts of the Australian bush letters are carried by strange "mailmen" often by tradesmen and even by passing strangers. Almost every traveler in the outback out-back has had the experience of being be-ing asked to deliver a letter. Sometimes letters are left on a cleft stick or under a stone with a "marker" and the next man takes it along. In the bush a letter is s sacred trust born out of the com radeship of pioneer days. In the artesian water belt ol southwest Queensland people often talk of news traveling by "bore drain cable." The phrase has the same meaning mean-ing as "bush telegraph" a piece of news that has arrived swiftly and mysteriously but is often true. In some districts the term has another meaning w-hich may point to the origin of the first. A message in a jam tin will float miles along a well-kept ditch carrying carry-ing water from a bore until stopped by a piece of wire netting set there for that purpose. On one occasion a police trooper troop-er stayed overnight with a man suspected sus-pected of being a cattle thief. The policeman talked most of the night so that the suspect had nc chance of slipping off to warn accomplices. ac-complices. B.:t while he talked a letter had been floating down the bore drain to tell of his arrival and evidenc was destroyed. i |