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Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 635, 24 January 1872, Page 3

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The Provincial Government have agreed to the terms of Messrs Seccombo and Sons' offer, and work will be commenced to-morrow morning.

The bombardment of the heavens commenced this morning, and the echoes were awakened by repeated salvoes of six doses of powder, of four pounds each, ejected from the mouths of the twenty-four pounders in the crazy old Port Britomart. No. 1 Company of Navals, however, who mustered to the number of about 30, failed in their object, and only succeeded in dispersing the few masses of cirro-cumulus clouds which hung over the city in the early morning. Heat, rather than rain, was produced. We understand that Major Jackson has been induced to offer himself as a candidate for the vacant saatin the House of Eepre?entatives for the Waikato electoral district. The vacancy is created by the resignation of Captain McPherson, the late member, who has accepted the office of adjutant of Militia and Volunteers. We are glad that a Waikato resident of Major Jack' son's standing, has consented to take a seat in the Colonial Legislature, for his own district.