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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4207, 14 September 1874, Page 3

At the Deep Lead, Callaghan’s, the Grey district, four miners for the last ten weeks obtained seventy ounces of gold from their claim. Asphyxiating Burglars, —The manufacturers of vaults and safes for the preservation of valuables, and also those whose profession it is to enter them for the purpose of plunder, continue to develops a vast amount of ingenuity. Almost as soon as we have the triumphant announcement of absolute security as the result of some combination or construction, We find that the device has been successfully evaded. All the arrangements of chilled iron and other modes of protection seem to be of no value against the efforts of experienced “cracksmen,” and attention now appears to be directed towards the addition of defensive weapons that shall maim or otherwise injure the intruder. One of the most recent devices of this land consists in what is called the Chemical Armour for Bank Vaults, which is so adjusted that should the interior of the safe be penetrated by violence, sundry glass vials filled with sulphuric acid are necessarily broken and their contents discharged into ppwdered carbonate of lime, resulting in the instantaneous production of carbonic acid gas enough to asphyxiate a regiment. What mode of defence will be adopted by the opposite side, should this device be carried out to any extent, remains to be seen.

Conveyances P COOKERY wishes to inform the public » that his Coach will attend daily to convey passengers from Lower Hutt to Taita, from every train on arrival, returning from Taita to catch every train. All passengers for Upper Hutt, on and after August 17, are requested to come bv last train. PROSSER’S LINE OE ROYAL MAIL COACHES will commence running on and after Monday, the 29th April, from—1. Porirua at ... ... ... 8 a.m. 2. Half-way House at ... ... 9 a.m. 3. Johnsonvilleat ... ... ... ' 9.15 a.m. Return Coach from Town to Blaokie’s. 1. Nag’s Head at 3 p.m. 2. Crown and Anchor at ... ... 3.15 p.m. 3. Osgood’s, Thorndon Elat, at ... 3.30 p.m.