INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
A Dunedin telegram to a Wellington paper says:—"The visit of the Victorian cricket team this summer is certain. A resident here offers to briii" - them over himself and supply the funds. Mr Beal, as representing three gentleman, has already taken the matter up, and is now in Melbourne negotiating". The Taranaki Pioneer Steel Company (Limited) has been wound up by the unanimous consent of the shareholders. The Corporation of Oaniaru call for tenders for £25,000 worth of debentures, redeemable in 190-1, and bearing interest at six per cent. The discovery of plumbago and other useful minerals, as also indications of gold, are reported on the East Coast of the North Island some thirtyfive miles from Tauranga. A recent telegram from Taranaki stated that, during the rough weather
prevailing, lightning had struck a house in the country. Fuller particulars state that at about 2 o'clock p.m. a heavy thunder-storm passed over the Frankley Road District, during which one of the flashes of lightningstruck the chimney of Mr Newland's house, made a hole in it, and knocked everything off the mantel-piece. The only persons in the room at the time were Mrs Newland and a boy, to whom she was giving some tea; and on the table was a Britannia metal teapot'lhe electric fluid darted from the chimney to the. teapot, fusing a hole in it, and then passed through the roof, knocking a piece of wood from the roof to some distance, and which struck Mr Newland, who was working in the garden. The boy was so frightened, that for some time nothing could persuade him but that his head was split in two. His nosp ; however, commenced bleeding, and before evening lie was all right again, Mrs Newland had a miraculous escape, for she was close to where the lightning must have struck.
A Maori named Toliua was sentenced at the Resident Magistrate's Court Wanganui, very recently, to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labor for stealing from the person.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1218, 9 October 1874, Page 4
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331INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1218, 9 October 1874, Page 4
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