The Provincial Council of Auckland have voted a grant of £IOOO to the widow of the late Superintendent of that Province, Mr Williamson,
The mining manager of the Sons of Fortune Company, Arrow River, informs the local paper that while working in the tuunel, & depth of 90 feet from the surface, last week, the men came across several fine totara logs, about 2ft Sin through. . They Were in a perfect state of preservation. Th« manager reports very favorably of the mine.
The danger of tamping powder charges with an iron instead of a wooden rammer was painfully fhown at Tuapeka the other day, when a young man named (riles had just placed a charge of powder in a frill hole, and was ramming it with a rod in pliwe of a wooden the consequence being tint the charge exploded, causing frightful injuriei to the unfortunate nun's faee and hands.
The Bruce Herald's important witness in tha Tichborue case, Mr I. M 'Donald, of Ho« kormi, in a lecter in the Southland Sews, says : —" The whole tenor of the article in the Brucf Herald of 30th April, assocuting my name with the school days and early history of Rog<:r Tichborue. is false,.-being-, entirety the production of goiao idlo.scribbler to hoax ,tta jjrrefe"
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Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 291, 9 June 1875, Page 5
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