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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 165, 19 October 1880, Page 4

A correspondent at Lima, says a Home journal, sends details of what appears to have been one of the most spirited actions of the South American war. After the battle of Taena, GCOO Chilian soldiers were sent by train to Lenta, and on .Inly 7th, after making a complete circuit of the city, fO as to surprise the enemy where least expected, they made a fierce and general attack on the new outlying defensive works in one grand charge. 4 lie Peruvian foits were taken in the rear, every man in them being put to death, and a rush was made for the inner line. T e outer forts were blown high into the air by thcexplo ion of mines, fired by electric Avires from the eit_\. The inner line of the forts was stormed with equal quickness. After a desperate struggle the remainder of the garrison maifea last stand in the public plaza, but were mown down on all sitles by the \ ietorious Chilians, until scarcely one of them remained, all deni ds for surrender being code ptuovsly of sed. Alcan- bile an attack was made fivni the sea front, and the Commodore of the Peruvian monitor Alanco Capao, teeing that all was lost, steamed into deep water and sank her. The crew escaped in boats, hut. the numerous neutral ships in the harbor, refusing to take them on board, they had to surrender, 'flic neutral vessels, however, leceivcd and rescued {Venn carnage and outrage, hundreds of women and children. The southern army of the allies, has thus been practically extol m'nated.

During the bearing of a case in the Wellington Ito.sidilit Magistiatcfs Court on .Monday, some peculiar evidence came out in reference to the sale of a qmirtzspecimen made bv a •‘Cumberland lad” to a watchmaker,’hailing from the same district in the old country. The statements made went to -how that the seller wanted IT. fur a specimen, which he told the, vendee he might seiid“luime folds ladder. ” The buyer, according to his statement, had never seen a quartz specimen in his life, and was piepared to lay one as a curiosity, to send to the old folks, lie remarked the brightness of the stone in places, and was told this had bee n done by the action of thepiek. Finally lie bone lit the specimen for £2, and no soon or was the money paid than it w. s found that sundry specks and two small nuggets of gold were attached to the stone by what the buyer called “ rosin.” The specimen. on being handed in to the ( ourt, was pronounced to lie simply a bit of dark-col-on d feldspar on to which small pieces of alluvial gold had been nliixed in the crevices by melted shoemakers’ wax. The Bench commented very severely on the nefarious transaction, and, after the case, the vendor of (he specimen was exceedingly eager to re-purchase the quartz, in order to avoid a pr<.sedition. — X.Z. Tim/*.

A Bat Story —A KranUliiif United States ) telegram tells, the following horrible storyN-A (!erman named Grossman keeps a large beer saloon in this {dace. Two of Ids children were sent into the cellar a few days ago to get some Swiss,cheese that was stored in a vault formerly used by a brew er. An army of starving rats disputed their pass-rue, and while the elder of the children fought the animals with a piece of iron, the other returned to the saloon, and screamed for assistance, saying that Ids brother was in the vault surrounded by rats. Air Grossman and two neighbors armed themselves withe clubs and hastened to the rescue of the hoy. The sight that met their eyes as they entered the vauft was one such as they lino never before w itnessed . The army of rats seemed to number thousands. The men joined in the contest, but so numerous and persistant were the rats that they were more than an hour in conquering them. Dead rats lay oiled on every side, and their numbers was )o greatly reduced that the survivors were driven to their holes. Might hundred and nineteen dead rats were carried from the vault. The carcases filled a large twohorse waggon box, and were a good load for a team to draw away.

Airs. Alary Ann Wliitc’ey, the venerable relict of the late llev. John Whiteiy, who was murdered by the rebel natives at Pukcaruhe, on Saturday e-ening, 155th .February, expired at her residence, Gover street, New Plymouth, recently, aged 7-~> ycarr. According to the Taranaki News she was mar:ied to Air. Whiteiy shortly after his acceptance as a candidate for missionary work at a small parish church in the Newark circuit, England, on 4th September, 185-52, and p-occdlcd with her husband to the old ? bssion House, Hatton Gardens, London. here she received a kind reception. Her husband having received recognition as a missionary minister at Lambeth’chapel, she proceeded with him to Portsmouth, and there embarked on the sth November, 13552, in the ship Caroline, bound for Hokianga, New Zealand Marly in the following year she landed at the Bay of Islands, the captain declining to enter the Hokianga on account of rough weather, and Horn thence proceeded overland to the Wesleyan Station, at Almigmign, Hokianga. After residing tlicie for a few years she removed with her husband to Ivivhia, and there spent the best of her days. In ltvHi the puketapu feud brought Mr Whitcley to Taranaki, and till tier death, with the exception of a visit to Sydney, and one or two visits to Auckland, Mrs AVhitelcy has continued to reside in Taranaki. She was the motbei of four daughter, two of whom, namely, Airs Dawson, of New Plymouth, and Alls Nield, of Syd-' ney, survive her.

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