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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 13, 9 February 1870, Page 3

A case of lynching occurred at the beach at Coromandela few days ago. A man was caught with a quantity of stolen articles upon him, and an impromptu court sentenced him to be beaten and ducked. A heavy stick was obtained, the culprit well belaboured, and then thrown, like the witches of old, into the river, to sink or swim. Luckily, the tide was out, and he waded through the river, amid the derision and hooting of the crowd, and disappeared in the scrub behind the Pacific Hotel. A number of Maoris wished to inflict a further chastisement, but were prevented by the Pakehas. The volcano of Perce, in the interior of Columbia, South America, has had a violent eruption, and two or three villages are reported destroyed, with all the inha bitants. Soon after the eruption, the river Congo, at the town of Foplan, fiffcooen miles from the volcano, rose quite high, and quantities of lava floated by, thickly strewn with the dead bodies of the people. The next day the river was quite dry. A formal correspondence recently passed between the State department of the United States and the Spanish Minister, on the unsettled affair j between Spain and South America. It has been finally decided that the United States invite the South American States to send representatives to a conference in Washington, January 15th.