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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 85, 17 August 1868, Page 197

. A Nxekow Escape.- —The Union'Bank and other'buildings at Westport have.had a escape from being destroyed by ' ; 'fire'V"

... SyVAixbwiN 0- a Needle.—-In tlie Town . . Talk ,of the .Wagga Wagga Express-we find that a yery eingular and critical accident .occurred to-a-young woman from a,needle getting into her throat, and preventing her from swallowing. It appears'i that a ,package of needles had been upset,- and in vTprckipgrkhem.'np'again the young woman . -We refer, to ..put one into, her.niduth, and bysome means or another .it. slipped into her throat, and. at one. time threatened - Tery 'dangerous consequences. ■ Every ef- . • fort was made by the medical men to remove it,' but without sucees and as the . > -^e^direr'.yi^^eyentua J Uy enabled to Wallow, the attempt was, wo believe, abandoned, and. the. needle left; to work itself out. - A Splendid Claim on; the Nelson --- .South west Gold-eields. —The Brighton correspondence of the Charleston Herald, contains .the following: : —“On Wednesday .last, Messrs Haokett an da party (of six) lodged with the Bank- of New Zealand .. here,;.the amount of : ounces .amalgam, the produce of a fortnights washing—to wit, twelve, days work —which, on being retorted, produced in . 'bullion two splendid bars of .gold, bearing the. Ncw Zealand. Bank brand, and weighings 44$ ounces of pure gold. This claim l is situated on the ; famed. Dublin Terrace, Ityrsa; taken.up. rby the proprietors about - ; the ilet j.Novembe*'; last, and' has been realising handsome' dividends up., to . last Christmas. Bince then the average yield; equivalent per week to the'quantity pro- -??' duc£d this week:—44B ounces at£3 16s ;- \ Sdjamounts ;t0 : £1,719 4s; which,- divided - 'amongst:six shareholders, for a ‘fortnight, leaveaeach man a divid end of £286 10s Bd, <: .whioh , ,:a , gain : l ßubdivided, gives a dividend of £23 l7s 5d per day. sOf conrse this dividend is subject to the general w;orking.ex- . • penses of the -claim, which cannot, after i : fall," be so. very much, leaving an;exceedingv ly handsometh—in. fact princelyr—income - for the fortunate proprietorß. ,> j. j the evening of April 23, : - the secon d building rrather insecurely ; if'etect&l. ‘ Some ' 300 or 400 Irishmen were . vj crowded’ lnto the - and" they cheered and stamped vociferously, in token -. itii f o f-thbir l approbation 'of the Fenian senti. ; menta ;/tittered by " various orators who

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