The Wanganui Chronicle says : The “ tramp ” to whom the Mayor gave a job at stonebreaking in the Corporation yards on Wednesday afternoon worked for two whole hours, broke the handles of two of the Corpoi ation hammers, and then rested for two di; s. He is resting yet. Antimony exists in great quantities in the vicinity of Queen Charlotte Sound. Mr. O’mond has planted five acres of tobacco on his Hawke’s Bay properly this season.
A ship that will send on the surface of, instead of ploughing through, the ocean has been devised by a Leeds, England, inventor, who enthusiastically claims that it will cross the Atlantic in three days.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 310, 15 December 1884, Page 2
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110Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 310, 15 December 1884, Page 2
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