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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 856, 2 November 1870, Page 3

Typhus fever of a very malignant type is reported to have broken out in Nelson. "It may be interesting to many persons to hear," writes ♦he Murrurundi correspondent of the Maitland Mercury, " that it is proposed bv three or four gentlemen to cut a tunnel through Mount "Wingen, four feet wide, for the purpose of knowing what has been for so many years burning. There is now a second place fiercely burning, a mile and a half on the Bickham aide of Mount Wingen, and evidently, from the smell, kerosene is on fire. There are persons here who believe if this tunnel is cut through the mountain—and £BO to £IOO will pay all the cost —that kerosene will be found in vast quantities—wells of it."—Referring to the above, the Wellington Evening Post savs: —If these,enterprising Victorian gentlemen are successful in their efforts to penetrate the mysteries of mother earth, we may perhaps hear of a company being formed to investigate the cause of the combustion going on at present in Tongariro.