FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 106, 21 December 1878, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Tlio work of tunnelling at the Dusky Sound copper mines is being prosecuted with considerable energy. A tiumber of small veins of yellow ore have been struck, and in one of the tunnels native copper is also found in all the crevices. The prospects of the company se<m to be remarkably good. A bare thirty-foot-fmntage block in Wellington Ins just been leased for 99 years at a rental of LSOO, with clause giving power to purchase within fifteen years for L9OOO. The ' New Zealander ' throws this hard fact in the face of the editor of the ' Timaru Herald ' in return for his sneers at the " match-box city " and its inhabitants. The 'N. 0. Times' says that when Burton's Circus left Wanna te for Oamaru a little dog belonging to Young Australia missed the train at the junction. He waited about till the arrival of the next down train, and by that came on to Oamaru ticketless. Is this an instance of instinct or intelligence 1 The 'Bruce Herald' understands on good authority that the Balclutha— Clinton line will be completed and handed over next week. " The Vagabond," writing from New Caledonia, says that the principal thing the French soldiers did after the massacre of the whites, was to kill a lot of friendly natives who had nothing at all to do with the revolt. The ' New Zealand Times ' has the following : —A remarkable escape from at least a serious accident happened to_ a Fijian boy at Wai Town. He, with others, was assisting to round in some cattle to Mr Sinclair's slaughter-yard, when a bullock made a rush at.hhn, and the boy not being quick enough in getting out of the road, the animal, to the startled onlookers, appeared to have gored him and carried him off on his horn, but it so happened that the boy had on a strong leather belt, which caught over the horn, and the bullock went tearing about with the hoy so fixed. After running about one hundred yards the horn broke short off, and the boy fell one way and the bullock another. The former was picked up insensible, lint, beyond a few slight bruises, was nothing the worse for his dangerous and involuntary ride.