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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 37, 24 October 1868, Page 3

As a gentleman was on his way from Cheetham Hill to Brook's Bank, in Manchester, to transact some business, he dropped a cheque for £15, which ho intended to have got cashed there. On his reaching he discovered his loss, but the vexation of the moment must have.be.en considerably increased when the clerk to whom he made known his misfortune informed him that the cheque had already been presented by and paid to a man who passed the owner of the cheque' at the bank door-. The Mynydd Maea Mountain, lying between Cwmbran and Crumlin, Monmouthshire, has now been"on fire upwards of a fortnight, and -at -the present time columns of smoke are observable several miles distant. The mountain near Merthyr which wo reported last week as on fire still continues burning. The pass wmch in many places is 6 foet deep, is one mass of fire, and in some quarters, when the wind blows fiercely, flame literally seems to reach ' the skies, affording one of the grandest and most terrible spectacles it is possible to conceive. .