DON PEDRO.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3022, 22 October 1878, Page 2

DON PEDRO.

The tributers. Hicks and party, have finished a crushing of 31bs of specimens - for the yield of I£oz3 of gold.

Accobding to the Dunedin Age there appears to be a singular fatality connected with the representatives of the Army and Navy in the Civil Service. Whatever their qualifications may be as military grandees, they have not proved a moral success in the Government departments, I have just heard of a military gentleman, high up in the Civil Service, who has bolted away from a salary of £500 a year, and is now en route by the mail steamer for California. The cause of this sudden departure is understood to be an offence of a serious character which, unfortunately, is not quite unknown in the past history of the Civil Service of New Zealand. Perhaps some Member of the House of .Representatives will kindly ask how this preciouß Private Secretary contrived so nicely to elude a trial for felony.

A good thing (when about to buy a watch or any article of jewellery), is to have a large assortment to select from. To realise ' the above go to vVilkes, the old established' , Watch-maker and Jeweller,' Shortland. Cut* tomeis wanted for watches, clocks, aad jewel* lery. Established, 1867.—L-Adyt.]

(For remainder of New* tee Ist $ 4th Paget.)