Rod McGuirk

CANBERRA, Australia—A fisherman said he is looking for the author of a message in a bottle found off the southern Australian coast 50 years after it was written.

Paul Elliot told Australian Broadcasting Corp. that he and his son, Jyah, found the bottle on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia state while fishing.

CANBERRA, Australia—Wildlife rangers said today that they had trapped a 4.7-metre-long (15-foot) saltwater crocodile—the largest they had ever caught in the northern Australian Katherine River and in an upstream region popular with tourists that is thought relatively safe from the killer predators.