CHRISTCHURCH.
May 30.
The cathedral spire being visible for a distance of twenty-five miles at sea, was mistaken by the captain of the Ship Castle Holme from London for Godley lighthouse, and it was not till he saw the breakers at Sumner that he discovered his mistake. It is complained that the lighthouse is not so easily distinguishable to strangers to the coast as, it should be.
The Bank of New Zealand shipped £20,000 in gold coin by ship Mataura, which sailed for London on Saturday with a full cargo and seventeen passegers. Advices received from England state that the first lot of this season's wheat exported from Waimata realised 48s per quarter ex-ship in London. At 5.20 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in one of four newly-erected and unoccupied houses belonging to Mr Brice, situated in Oxford Terrace. The Fire Brigade was quickly on the spot, and the fire was extinguished. The estimated damage is £100. The four houses were insured for £200 in the Royal office. The police have arrested a man named John Brown, alias Henry Duncan, who was seen about the premises when the fire broke out.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3095, 30 May 1881, Page 3
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