LATEST TELEGRAMS. (PER PRESS AGENCY.) GRAHAMSTOWN. 15th November.
The Alburnia mine prospects are still favorable. There is a good show of gold in the stopes for about forty feet. Purchases have shown fluctuations ; sales were made this afternoon at 85s, and are still hardening. The lightning struck the mainmast of the cutter Stag, lying at Bighall's Hauraki sawmill, yesterday, cutting out a crescentshaped splinter 7ft long, and causing much alarm to those on board. The Advertiser's Paroa correspondent says that TukuMno's people have been busily engaged for the last two days in mustering, preparatory to driving off all -cattle belonging to Europeans on the Komata block. Mr. Firth's steamer at Kotukn is stranded on a sand bank in the Waitai river. She is heavily freighted.
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Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 119, 17 November 1879, Page 2
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125LATEST TELEGRAMS. (PER PRESS AGENCY.) GRAHAMSTOWN. 15th November. Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 119, 17 November 1879, Page 2
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