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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 211, 6 September 1871, Page 2

WANTED a Respectable YOUTH as INDOOR APPRENTICE to the TANNING. Apply to Sedgwick & Gotland, Waimea-street and Wakefield. 1695 By Order of the Provincial Government. AUCTION on THURSDAY, the *14th instant, At the Commerciai, Wharf— THE BRICK AND WOODEN T>UILD I N G S Adjoining said Wharf, to be Sold to be Removed. JOHNR. MABIN, Auctioneer. Nelson, September 6, 1871. 1696 An interesting item of Australian news comes by way of America:—" There has been a terrible hurricane in the Fiji Islands. So great was the force of the wind that heavy substances were blownmore than a hundred miles. A ship was sailing easily along with a light breeze off the' ccaet of Australia, when something descended upon her deck with a dull thump. The boatswain stepped forward and picked it dp. It was apeice of cut meat, weighing half a pbundl;. !The ; boatswain, who was an old resident of Fiji, tasted it and pronounced it Missionary.^ Most singular'- to l relate, . there! vras; alf jjll set of false teeth imbedded in' the tissue, with a grip like that of a steel trap. The boatswain is_amined ; .thesei andTecognUredthem as be^ngipg . to .^nn, s 'a' well-known^Fiji t'bliief. "Tt^rwas rather evident that there had been a high wind lini 1 Pfl'Llj" :.,.'■. . . ■ r f,yy> .".'...■ A-..; A .,■< *„.'■'.•■"'•''