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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 33, 8 February 1875, Page 4

One of the most extraordinary yields of gold we remember ever to have heard of is reported from Port Darwin, in tho Nothern Territory of South Australia. The correspondent of the Melbourne Argus telegraphs to that journal under date of January 8 :-—"A crushing of seven tons of quartz from a new discovery in the neigborhood of Pine Creek, yielded 6090z of gold." But there is no necessity for a " rush." Such a yield as this is quite exceptional. There are not likely to be many reefs equally rich ; and judging from experience, there is not any probability of much stone of equal richness." The London correspondent of the Argus says :— "Paris has been startled by an explosion similar to that which shook the north of London a few weeks ago. Accounts differ as to the nature of the inflammable matter which took fire. Some spy it was a boiler full of compressed ether ; others, that it was a secret preparation of the manufacturer, in the composition of which nitroraethyline largely entered. At all events, 'some workmen imprudently, and, as it is said, against rules, entered the warehouse where the substance was stored with a badly closed lantern. A fire first ensued, and the workmen ran away crying • " Fire 1' " but in a few seconds the explosion came. The man carrying the lantern was in an instant a calcined corpse. Another, taken to the hospital, died shortly afterwards. A third, with a terrible wound in bis back, is in an alarming state. About 15 others were wounded. Fortunately, the bulk of the hands, 350 in number, did not come to work bo early. The main part of tho factory, was not destroyed, but immeosa damage was done to the railway station and parts of St. D^uie. It is calculated that one-fourth of the windows in the town are broken.''' fvr

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