NEW ZEALAND.
FPbe “ Times” Special Wire-I Auckland Items. Auckland Dec. 20. Mr Stuart, of Tiniaru, will be appointed English master for the Auckland Grammar School if he can show satisfactory testimonials from 1870 to 1878. Intelligence received; by the Auckland Stud Company states that Sir Hercules Robinson has bought seven choice rnares in England,, for stud purposes, from Lord Falmouth for the Middle Park Stud, five being in foal to crack sires. A boy on Saturday picked up a dynamite cap, and endeavored to prick it out with a steel instrument, when it exploded, shattering his hand. The Wesleyan conference meets at Nelson on January 21. The discovery of an auriferous reef is reported near Waiwera Springs, and a ton of stone has been sent to the Thames to be tested. Narrow Escape. Wellington, Dec. 20. A large boarding-house known as York House, had a narrow escape from destruction this morning at 4.30. The lire was discovered in an unoccupied bedroom, but was extinguished before it had got a firm hold of the building.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2421, 20 December 1880, Page 3
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174NEW ZEALAND. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2421, 20 December 1880, Page 3
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