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precaution, the train touched the cyclone’s outer edge. Mr Cutter describes the sight as the most horrible he ever ■saw. The air was lurid, and dark, and hot, as if coining from an even. Everything in the pathway of the storm was •demolished and crushed, and annihilated. Barnes,- fences, sheds, telegraph poles, and everything at all fragile were swept up. Mf Cutter and his firemen •crouched down in the tender, and for a tooment feared tint the whole train Would ba overturned. .The cars were ■only held on the track by their safety chains. The passengers, who first Wondered at the stop, with blanched cheeks and terrified countenances, viewed the terrific monster of the air in its work. T EDUCATION BOARD OF THE DISTRICT OF WESTLAND. TEACHERS WANTED for Schools at GREENSTONE and UPPER GROSSING, Arahura, under 88th Clause, Salary to consist of Capitation Allowance of £3 15s, paid upon average attendance calculated quarterly. Average attendance for quarter ended March 31st;—Greenstone, 33 ; Upper Crossing, 24. • Applications will be received up to WEDNESDAY, May 25, • E. T. ROBINSON, i ’V' Secretary. Hokitika, May 10. SITTINGS of the RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S and WARDEN’S COURTS, within the County Vf Grey and at KUMARA, will be held on the dates in MAY, and at the places under mentioned GfcEYJtOUTIt, Warden's Courts—2nd, 9th, IGth, 23rd Resident Magistrate’s Court—6th, 13th, 20th, 27th Extended Jurisdiction— 13th, 27th, Rnmara—3rd, 10th, 25th Ahaura—sth, 26th, at 4 p.m. Arnold—2lst, at noon No Town—3ofch, at noon Public Holiday—24th. H. A. STRATFORD, R. M., Warden. NOTICE. WADE AND SPENCE beg to announce that they have PURCHASED the COMMERCIAL SALE ROOMS, Wharf street, and the GOODWILL of the BUSINESS lately carried on by Mr E. A. LEARMONTH, as AUCTIONEER, and GENERAL COMMISSION and INSURANCE AGENT, and hope by prompt attention to all business entrusted to them, to merit the confidence •of. the public. Mr Learmentb will continue to sell for th© new firm for the next two months. Hokitika, May 2, 1881. £• BARFFj TifINING ADVOCATE, <Regiatered 1867) Conducts suits, and appears in applications and objections in the Wardens* Courts for Kuraara, Greenstone, Goldsborough, and Stafford. ‘Registration and all other Court business carefully attended to. Forms filled up; Agreements and Petitions prepared j Naturalization Papers made •out, &c. OFFICE j TUI STREET. E. N - WILLBEEG, LICENSED SURVEYOR, AND MINING ENGINEER. Encroachment, Tunnel, and WaterRace' Surveys made at reasonable charges. Perfect accuracy guaranteed. Agent, D, Hannan, Mining Advocate, &c., Post-office Hotel, Main Street, Humara. The great monster noyel ORACLE” COMPANY OF £20,000, in Shares of £1 each, Has commenced operations on the V.R.G. SPRING MEETING, Including MELBOURNE CUP, AND • ALL OTHER RACES OP THE . MEETING. Special Prizes for early applicants. Apply for Prospectus to “THE ORACLE,” Care of F. C. GOYDER, Melbourne.