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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2379, 8 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A nkw volcano has bnikcn out in the •Siena Mad re, Mexico, since the recent earthquake, and is sending up vast columns of flame, smoke, and lava, while the infernal 1 bonders of the burning inonntainare terrific. No one dares to approach within a league and a half of it, on account of the fissures in the earth. Not a bird or a living creature is to be seen within ton miles of the volcano; the town of Ravispe is a heap of ruins, and has been deserted by its inhabitants, and earth tremnrs are almost of daily occurrence in the surrounding district, , ()nk of the eccentric acts of Raron SeilliiSre, who is now confined in a lunatic asylum, was engaging in a game of bo/.iqne at the Jockey Club in Paris for eight and forty consecutive hours. Ife, himself, never left off playing, the whole time. He held his food in one hand, while the other retained the cards. Ills antagonists were provided in relays, and ho ultimately ruse from the table a loser to the extent of £B,OOO. An allotment of land, and buildings thereon, at the corner of Smith and John-sloM-strecls, Oollingwond, Melbourne, and known as Kimberley’s Knot Palace, \y a s sold to the Colonial hank on the loth Inst, at the very high price of £2<X) per foot,