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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1234, 20 November 1882, Page 2

Since, the first well was opened iuPeuusylvauia in. 1859, 1,600 million dollan' worth has been added by mere oil to the wealth of. the United Status, Adeathfrom a peculiar cause is roporiod in a recent London paper, which states that Dr Thomas held an inquest at the Mivylebone road on the body of Alfred Harrington, age four years, • The childV grandmothor placed him upon a folding bedstead, and covered him over .with a thin sheet to keep the flies, off while the was dressing in another room, The grandfather relumed home, and finding the bedstead down, shut it up without noticing that the child was there, tndtheboy was suffocated. The Jesuit Observatory at Manillajunvtains a seismometer of wonderfukMV, lion", which, by means:of .a Bj|»rpMneil on carbonised paper, writes the every earth movement, and.it appears from the evidence of these delicate in»trn>"; menU that in that part of the world the orustof-the eattli is rarely if ever, per* feotly, quiescent. • .<.."'..;■;

■ WAIRABAPA WEST COUNTY.,, REBH tender* are invited for (ho fol? J lowingwork : Formation,bflmi!e,'2Bekinß, : , tod 72 link* of road ttt Alfredtoa 1 The lowest or ariyOtende'r not uocejsaiily/, Mcepted- Plana mil BWcific»tioHß. ombe (there tenders »re to be Sent), L and ut Mr McQijinie'g, Alfredtoq. Tenders . to. h,o. ad-, dressed to the Chawman : Works' Oogjqitteti,'' ud marled outsidei ifTende^"' ; :r .■•■• A : JOHN KING, . sM' ; ';' :; : .: County Engineer.