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on.. t>_ n y , Auckland, October 3. • m® o as arrived from Gisborne via Tanranga. Onher passage she took shelter from a gale under White Island. Captain Fernandez says that hopes never to have occasion to go there again, as the water is so deep that it is only just possible to hold on, while the atmosphere is so impregnated with the sulphur dust from the volcano, that it was very unpleasant in its effects. Everyone’s complexion turned a dull leaden hue, and the particles of dust were very irritating to the throat. The color of the ship’s paint was visibly altered. ~ , Christchurch, October 3. 1 he members of the German Expedition for observing the transit of Venus have decided to erect an observatory at Burnham, eighteen miles from Christchurch. The members of the Philosophical Institute have sleeted them honorary members, and given them a dinner. m , -n .... . Octobers. Ihe Press this morning says Smythe now reports.that the moas have escaped ; and adds that is just what we expected to hear. R, E. M. Smythe may find it very easy to catch moaa near Browning’s Pass, but the difficulty is to bring them to Christchurch of to some inhabited region, and we feel pretty sure he will never succeed in accomplishing that.” m, , ILawbence, October 6. a as a B£eat flood in the \V aipori river Sa 4 Ur<iay ‘. T , he slud ge channel has silted . Particulars are to hand. The con- (^ Inspector of Works m. ... , , Westport, October 5. me three-masted schooner St, Kilda, from Melbourne, sailed in over the bar this morning without signals and found 21ft of water on the _ . Wellington, October 5. Mrs Vogel and family will proceed by the Otago on her next tnp to Melbourne. The New Zealand Steam Shipping Company have decided not to break up their fleet of steamers, .They have sent Home for specific-
tions and estimates for putting new compound engines into the Taranaki and Wellington, but if the work be done reasonably in this Colony they will have it done here.
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Evening Star, Issue 3625, 5 October 1874, Page 3
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