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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1011, 13 December 1881, Page 4

K few Russian Jews, the advance ■guard of a mighty host that have been driven from the Czar’s domain have arrived in Chicago. They look like well-to-do tradespeople. An extraordinary discovery was made by the guard in charge of a train to Melbourne at the Meredith station. A number of longwoolled sheep had been placed in a truck attached to the train, and wrapped in rather <lamp coverings. On arriving at Lal Lal station the guard’s attention was attracted to their panting, but of this he did not take much notice, as he believed it to be the effect of the hot weather. However, on arriving at the Meredith station, he went to look at them again, and to his great surprise discovered three of them to be on fire, the flames of which he lost no time in extinguishing. They had evidently not been on fire long, as could be seen from the damage done to the covering and wool, but if the occurrence had not been noticed so soon, theie is little doubt but that the rest of the sheep in the truck., together with the three mentioned, would have been seriously burned. The fire which was at first thought to have originated from a spark out of the engine, arose from spontaneous combustion.