Tiio Waurjn Wouga arrived in Wellington on Tuesday the Idth, bringing a number of passengers bark, who very recently started for the new diggings. Generally, these men report that at the St. Punstan, the diggings were to sauna extent unworkable, owing to the rise of .he river. Provisions, as might be expected, were scarce in quantity, and enormous in price. Two Wonderful Pens. —Philena Holland, the famous Warwickshire physical!, is said to have translated Pliny's ‘‘Natural History ” into English with a single pen! A keeper of the Vitican library at Home, in 16'j9, had a very extraordinary pen, with which, and no other, he wrote for forty years.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 66, 2 October 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)
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108Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 66, 2 October 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)
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