AUCKLAND.
This day. The applications for space in the Mataura's refrigerator exceed the amount required to load the vessel. It is proposed to remove the head-quarters of the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company to Auckland. A settler at Alexandra named John James Powell was drowned yesterday while attempting to cross the river at Kopua, in the King country. Mr Douglas has deposited at the museum the large diamond found by the Raglan prospecting party. Mr Pond, the provincial analyist, has oxx>ressed the opinion that the stone, though a gem, is of too great specific; gravity to be a true diamond, and that it is what is culled by the trade a "rough diamond." Messrs I. Alexander and Kohn, jewellers, pronounce it, however, a true diamond. Before it was taken to the museum Mr Kohn subjected the stone to the jeweller's test, of scratching a ruby, with satisfactory results.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3634, 6 March 1883, Page 3
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149AUCKLAND. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3634, 6 March 1883, Page 3
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