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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 267, 18 December 1909, Page 5

A bale fell from a stack in Hie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's store at Lyttelton on Friday evening, and within a few minutes the firebclls were ringing wilillv and half the town was running about looking for the outbreak. The bale landed 'n some loose superphosphate on the floor of the store, and the dusty manure blew up in such a convincing manner that n youth who happened to sec it through a window rushed oil in a hurry to ring the bell.

Mr. David Zirri.i n. director of the Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand, Limited, who is so well known in connection with the gold-mining industry on the West Coast of the South Island, left by the Victoria for Sydney last lii'.'lit," en route for England. Mr. Ziman, whilst at Tlomc, will be engaged iin the business of his company and also in the settlement of several details connected with the Waihi Reefs Consolidated property, the option over which he recently took up on behalf of his' London friends, floating a new company to wortf the mine. It is also probable that Mr. Ziman's present visit to the Old Country will result in the further development of the oil-boring proposition at Kotuku, on the West Coast, which has been purchased by the company he represents. Mr. Ziman intends returning to New Zealand when his business arrangements permit,