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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2930, 16 August 1882, Page 2

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TSZS DAY. [“Age” Special.] FEARFUL EXPLOSION. TEMPTING THE NIHILISTS. London, August 14. A quantity of gunpowder, secreted in the basement of a school at Grodno, a Russian town on the railway line from St. Petersburg to Cracow, exploded accidentally. The school was full at the time. A large force of troops and detectives are massing at Moscow, in anticipation of the Czar’s coronation. AUSTRALIAN. [Reuter’s Agency.] Mails. Albany, August 15. The P. and O. Co.’s steamship Clyderwith the inward Suez mails dated London, 14th July, arrived in Xing George’s Sound this morning. The Te AnauMelbourne, August 15. Sailed, this afternoon—Union Co.’s steamer Te Anau, for the Bluff. Luncheon, to Sir Henry. The members of the Victorian Ministry entertained Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, at luncheon to-day. Electric LightThe Government has decided to light the railway terminus at Flinders street by electricity.

Bank Robbery—Daring Thieves. Particulars which are to hand regarding the robbery from the Colonial Bank at Reedy Creek, show that the thieves entered the Bankand abstracted the keys of the safe from the pocket of the manager’s coat. The manager was ill and asleep, and was not disturbed by the robbers.