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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2892, 7 May 1888, Page 2

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The Row in the China Shop,

Wellington, Monday. . • A proclamation will be issued today proclaiming China and other adjacent ports infected. Invercargill, Monday. The Te Anau has been signalled, and is expected to arrive at 11.80. It is stated that the authorities at the Bluff received no instructions to quarantine the vessel, and there is great excitement at the Port. A large body of police, under Major Moore, together with Mr McCullock, Resident Magistrate, weut down by train this morning. - Later. The Premier advises the Mayor and Member for Awarua that Government cannot legally prevent the landing of thoChineso from the To Anau. He says Parliament will legislate, and aslcs those in authority to see that no disorder occurs. A crowd of: people are leaving by the 11.15 a.m. train for Bluff, but it is believed the steamer will reach the port before the train is down. Money collected on Saturday is'being used for fares. Christchurch, May 5.

A remarkable instance of spontaneous ignition occurred the other day in a threshing machine operating on some wheat stacks on a farm near Amberley, revealing a hitherto unsuspected source of danger.. The wheat operated upon was very foul with smut, which it can only be inferred is under certain conditions highly inflammable, and was probably in this case the immediate cause of an accident. One of the hands at work with the machine, and at the time behind the riddles, says that a sudden flash of fire overpowered him, singing his face. It was unaccompanied by any noise, save a puff. The feeder knew uothing of it until lie saw the straw ascending the elevator in flames, which almost instantly enveloped the straw. The

stack of straw and the unthreshed grain were consumed, but the damage to the threshing plant wasnot serious. Hawera, May 5. The Mania Dairy Company have just received the account of the sales of 37 kegs and C cases of tins of butter sent home by the Buapeliu, oil December Bth. The butter brought 98s per cwt, and netted about 80s 4d per cwt. In their letter accompanying their account of the sales, the agents say that " the kegs could not be better and are much preferable to the tins. The butter was very good, and notwithstanding there being on the 25th February, 1888, a great quantity of Irish, American, Canadian, Continental butter in the market, we think we got a fair price for yours."