LATEST TELEGRAMS.
(By Inter-Provincial Telegraph.) Nelson, Saturday, 4.12. p.m. Arrived, on the 6th instant—Gothenburg, from Hokitikaand Melbourne; and on the 7th, Kennedy, from the Grey and Hokitika. Sailed, on the 7th — Queen, for Taranaki and Manukau. Dttnedin, Saturday, 7.18 p.m. Arrived — Geelong and Lindsay, from Lyttelton. The cargo of the Zephyr, from San Francisco, consists of 4082 quarterea&B and 4793 half-sacks of flour, 833 bags of wheat, 4000 feet timber, 1000 fence pickets. Advices brought by her state that one of the most terrible disasters on record occurred at Ban Francisco. On the 17th April, two boxes of nitro-glyeerine exploded, causing great devastation and loss of life; sixteen killed and four fatally injured,'and thirty more or less injwei Numerous instances of hairbreadth escapes are narrated. The damages are not known, but are believed to be immense,
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Press, Volume X, Issue 1144, 9 July 1866, Page 3
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